Bored Panda’s Churches-of-the-World Challenge

by Sally Thomas

View the “50 Most Extraordinary Churches of the World” here. And don’t tell me you don’t have at least one semi-extraordinary church near you. . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

How Low Humanism Has Sunk When It Denies Human Exceptionalism

by Wesley J. Smith

The President of the American Humanist Association has a blog out loving Marx for his naturalism, but decrying the wicked old Utopian’s acceptance of human exceptionalism. From the blog of David Niose: One such shortcoming is Marx’s tendency toward what might be called “human . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

Well, Them Baptists Do All Look Alike…

by Joe Carter

Newser , an online news aggregator started by Michael Wolff ( Vanity Fair , New York magazine), claims to “choose the most important stories from hundreds of US and international sources and reduce them to a headline, picture, and two paragraphs.” That reducing to a picture can be a bit . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

A Martyred Faith

by Joseph Bottum

Along with several others, we received yesterday a statement from a reader who practices the dangerous profession of being a Christian missionary to Muslims in the Middle East. Along the way, the missionary notes: In August of 2008 a young lady named Fatima al-Mutayri, age 26, was martyred in Saudi . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

Catholic Justices and the Myth of Secular Neutrality

by Joe Carter

For the last several days I’ve been writing about religious beliefs and how they are tied to theory-making (see here , here , and here ). In essence, my argument has been that (a) everyone has religious beliefs, (b) these beliefs form the basic presuppositions that shape our theory-making, . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

“Right to Die” Means a Physician Duty to Kill?

by Wesley J. Smith

Bioethicist Jacob Appel can be relied on to promote the most radical bioethics agendas, assisted suicide for the mentally ill, fetal farming, you name it.  And now he has argued that if Montana affirms a constitutional right to assisted suicide in Montana, the state has a duty to make sure that . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

Upside Down, Down Under

by Joseph Bottum

Marriage up, divorce down in Australia —and the Aussie Mark Richardson hears the melancholy, long, withdrawing roar of feminism’s “third wave” retreating. . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

The Evolution of Burkeanism

by Joe Carter

President Obama may be a fan of Charles Darwin , but if he was truly an admirer of Edmund Burke this would have been his campaign slogan . . . (Via: Darwin 2009 ) . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

Drowning Hippasus: Reductionism and Religiously-Based Explanations

by Joe Carter

Note: This is the third and final post in a discussion on the role of religious beliefs in theory-making. The other two can be found here and here . In ancient Greece a religious controversy once broke out over the square root of two. The Pythagoreans, a Hellenic organization of thinkers who . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Sep 2009 0

A Divided House

by Joseph Bottum

A divorced couple’s irreconcilable differences make what seems a very bad occasion for legal decisions with serious First Amendment implications. But that’s what we have in the June 2009 New Hampshire family-court decision In re Kurowski & Voydatch . The libertarian law-professor and . . . . Continue Reading »

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