A small but intriguing book just arrived in the mail: Rodney Clapp’s Johnny Cash and the Great American Contradiction: Christianity and the Battle for the Soul of a Nation . Known for such legendary songs as “Ring of Fire” and “I Walk the Line,” Cash, particularily in . . . . Continue Reading »
The Carnegie Council on Ethics in International Affairs mentioned in its February newsletter an online dialogue it hosted this summer between its president, Joel Rosenthal, and Mathew Taylor, chief executive of RSA in London, on the best reasons for supporting the crusade against global warming, . . . . Continue Reading »
A press release just arrived from the American Bible Society. I don’t see it on their website, so I thought I’d pass along the news, just in case you missed it. “Easter is a moveable feast, so to speak, because it is not fixed in relation to the civil calendar and every year when . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Sun runs a little piece today by Eric Ormsby on W.H Auden, a notice of the publication of Auden’s Collected Prose, Volume III: 1949-1955 . It is a nice summary of the book, as one would expect from Ormsby, but along the way it quotes the last poem Auden wrote, the 1973 . . . . Continue Reading »
Whatever happened to good old fashioned adoption? It’s still here, of course. But in our sense-of-entitlement times, why adopt when we can rent a poor woman’s uterus to gestate a baby for us? That’s seems to be a growing business in India. From the story in the New York Times:An . . . . Continue Reading »
We have discussed the issue of a deaf couple wanting to use embryo selection to choose a deaf child before, and now the issue is again being discussed in connection with the UK’s hopeless mess of a bill that seeks to regulate all human reproduction. The issue is important on several levels and . . . . Continue Reading »
Senators Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sam Brownback (R-KS) have teamed up to co-author and promote a bill called the “Prenatally and Postnatally Diagnosed Condition Awareness Act.” Stranger political bedfellows could not be found: Kennedy is considered the liberal lion of the Senate whose . . . . Continue Reading »
A while back I had a—let us say, spirited — exchange with Alexia Kelley , the Executive Director of Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good. Ms. Kelley’s organization had published a statement calling for civility when Catholics disagree with each other about public policy, and I . . . . Continue Reading »
I agree with Jody’s comments on the California homeschooling decision, especially about the plaintiffs perhaps not being the ideal plaintiffs for a test case. Now that the case is on the books, however, it would seem to me that any homeschooling parent in California could sue the state in . . . . Continue Reading »
Out of California comes a court decision that denies any constitutional right to homeschool. The initial news reports made it sound bad , and the decision itself seems to go far beyond where it needed to. But Joseph Knippenberg , Richard Garnett , and even the libertarian legal bloggers at the . . . . Continue Reading »
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