In addition to the litany of unhelpful distortions and indulgence in wishful thinking on the part of some religion opinion writers over the weekend, some of the more rigorous in their ranks have provided helpful bits of writing on the Pope’s “condom comment.” One is Dr. Janet . . . . Continue Reading »
The Animal Liberation Front likes to compare itself to Martin Luther King and Ghandi. PETA calls them the moral equivalent of the French Resistance and the Underground Railroad.Yup, those example really popped into my mind when I read that some ALF terrorists sent what they said were . . . . Continue Reading »
I was driving cross-country in the summer of 1995, at a time when the music of Hootie and the Blowfish was inescapable. My wife and I listened to the radio from Kentucky to California, and the soundtrack assigned to us by American pop music was song after song from the multiplatinum album Cracked . . . . Continue Reading »
The annual Thanksgiving messages have begun to show up around the web (for America’s Thanksgiving Day, that is). This time of year poses a bit of a problem for Christian bloggers: how to express our thankfulness without saying the same thing everyone else has already said. It is the challenge of . . . . Continue Reading »
My pal Nat Hentoff, one of the country’s most respected civil libertarians, weighs in against Donald Berwick’s desire to eliminate most doctor/patient face-to-face meetings, Paul Krugman’s assertion that we need “death panels” to control costs, and Obamacare generally, . . . . Continue Reading »
I have over the years become something of a connoisseur (if I’m permitted to use such a French word for such an American thing) of presidential Thanksgiving proclamations . My reason for an interest in a thing so potentially banal (and trust me, some of the proclamations are beyond . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s little less fashionable today than praising the Puritans, especially for their egalitarian political idealism, their promotion of genuinely humane and liberating learning, and their capacity for enjoyment and human happiness. Praising the Puritans is especially difficult for us because . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a followup to my recent post about Peter Singer denying equal moral status to children until after two years of age.Defenders of Peter Singer like to say that we critics are just too dull to really understand what the great man is saying. And hence, we distort his thinking on issues . . . . Continue Reading »
Like the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, the Free Church of Scotland has historically allowed only unaccompanied singing of Psalms in the liturgy. However, its synodical assembly has now decided, by a narrow majority, to permit extrabiblical hymns and instruments in worship for those . . . . Continue Reading »
Christian women don’t need any new sources for inspiration or therapy, and while the gender discussions are important to have, there’s a lot more to discuss—a lot more Bible, a lot more theology, and what seems to be a never-ending need to make disciples. Since that day at TEDS . . . . Continue Reading »
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