SHS Funnies

by Wesley J. Smith

If they relax together at sunset in side by side bathtubs as a prelude, a whole industry could collapse.The evil before the  “plant rights” movement:Why Dusty is Michelle Obama’s “Enemy # . . . . Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2010 0

Christians in Israel

by David Mills

Readers of David Goldman’s Israeli Christians may be interested in this report on the synod for bishops in the Middle East, quoting Rabbi David Rosen, an adviser to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, who spoke to the bishops yesterday: Rabbi tells synod that Christians in Israel enjoy freedom, . . . . Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2010 0

A Pauline Painter

by David Mills

Today in “On the Square,” R. R. Reno reflects on an artist whose work expresses an Augustinian understanding of man who is not at home in the world. Enrique Martinez Celaya, whose paintings are being shown at both the Museum of Biblical Art and the (Episcopal) Cathedral of St. John the . . . . Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2010 0

Western Man’s Freedom Fantasy

by Joe Carter

Every day thousands of people in America have accidents that endanger their lives—and yet they don’t capture our imaginations in the same way as the thirty-three miners in Chile. Why is that? Andrew Belonsky proposes and intriguing explanation: [W]hy do we care so much about  . . . . Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2010 0

Keeping the Spirits Clean?

by Joe Carter

Although I’m fluent in evangelicalese and speak a smidgen of Catholic, I only know a few phrases of Mainline. Usually, I can work out the meaning, but I need a translator to figure out what Michelle Obama was saying on a recent appearance of the Tom Joyner Morning Show: It means all the world . . . . Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2010 0

New England Journal of Medicine Pushes NICE-Style QALY Health Care Rationing

by Wesley J. Smith

I have been warning you all until I am blue in the face that the goal of the medical intelligentsia is explicit and invidious health care rationing under Obamacare—just as NICE does in the UK for the NHS.  And now, the NEJM has an article pushing the “Quality Adjusted Life . . . . Continue Reading »

14 Oct 2010 0

Christian Differences Illustrated

by David Mills

An illustration of the differences that still divide serious Christians, from contrasting stories on the 33 Chilean miners trapped so long underground. From the (Southern) Baptist Press : When the mine collapsed, three of the miners — including Henríquez — were Christians. Since . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2010 0

Global Warming Hysteria: Scientists Should Welcome Intense Scrutiny

by Wesley J. Smith

I am a gadfly against what I consider to be global warming hysteria. But this post is different. I am trying to be helpful to the people with whom I disagree. I am not kidding. So please read this post in the spirit in which I have written it.Too Much Protection and Political Cover: That is one of . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2010 0

Afternoon Links — 10.13.10

by David Mills

Eastern Catholic patriarchs make demands of the pope , during the second day of the synod for the Middle Eastern bishops, and one also proposes “a bank of available priests” from other countries who would serve for a short period in the Middle East. In 1910, six Americans tried to make . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2010 0

Oregon Hospices Refuse to Participate in Physician Prescribed Suicide

by Wesley J. Smith

A few weeks back, I mentioned a study published by the Hastings Center that hospices in Oregon are not participating in assisted suicide.  The CBC asked me to expound more fully on that issue, and the piece is out today.I discuss the abuses in Oregon—which we have dealt with many times . . . . Continue Reading »

13 Oct 2010 0