As promised, here is another in a series of excerpts from my book criticizing the animal rights movement that I will post from time to time here at SHS. We began with the conclusion of Dean Koontz’s wonderful preface. We now turn to the book in proper.I open by describing a visit I took . . . . Continue Reading »
Global warming hysteria—which is not the same thing as the science investigating AGW—has been discredited. And now, a senator wants a criminal investigation. From the story:The Senate’s top global warming skeptic on Tuesday is calling for a possible criminal investigation . . . . Continue Reading »
Christopher Benson and Matthew Milliner have been doing the Lord’s work over at Evangel in agitating for the recovery of a non-pragmatic understanding of church architecture. Of course, they’re swimming up stream among us evangelicals: one whole wing of our happy movement doesn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
The governor wants Polycarp to deny Christ, and promises if he will, his life will be spared. But the faithful bishop answers, “For 86 years I have served Him, and He has never done me wrong; how then can I now blaspheme my King and Savior?”Born around AD 69, Saint Polycarp was a central . . . . Continue Reading »
At National Review , Rich Lowry and Ramesh Ponnuru have a valuable essay on “the Obama administration’s assault on American identity”: What do we, as American conservatives, want to conserve ? The answer is simple: the pillars of American exceptionalism. Our country has always been . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things and Encounter Books Invite You To An Evening With Wesley J. Smith To celebrate the publication of A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy: The Human Cost of the Animal Rights Movement Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010 Time: 6:00 PM Location: First Things Editorial Offices 35 East 21st Street, . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent post by Christopher Benson on the Sunday of Orthodoxy in which he mused about the anathematising of the iconoclasts ... and what that says about him as a non-icon worshipping Christian. I’m not going to essay and defence of icons, the Lossky/Ousspensky book (The Meaning of Icons) is . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Turk at Evangel is doing a short series on theodicy. I asked him how/when he would connect his discussion with Job and got the following response.Job is where everyone goes. I think the Scripture pretty much screams out from about every third page an answer which we don’t need Job to . . . . Continue Reading »
It is stunning to me that President Obama would yet again try to push the popularly rejected Obamacare plan through Congress. Apparently, his new proposal is more of the same, leaning more toward the Senate version than the House, e.g. no public option. The tax on “Cadillac” . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a follow-up of sorts to Joshua S.'s Why I’m Not a Creationist (Anymore). For the purpose of consistency with his post, I will also use the term creationist to refer to YEC (young earth creationism – 6ky to 10ky earth aging).But as much and as easy as it is for many to reject YEC, . . . . Continue Reading »
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