I am not sure I understand why this is noteworthy. Some cattle has been cloned from dead animals and their offspring have entered the food chain. From the BBC report, “Cattle Cloned From Dead Animals:The aim of livestock cloning is to clone the best animals to produce the best . . . . Continue Reading »
I have sometimes written here that some in the science and philosophical communities hope to turn science—which properly understood is a method of obtaining and applying information—into a subjective value system/philosophy/quasi-religion—sometimes called scientism. Now, a . . . . Continue Reading »
“Out of all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers, incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history,” asked conservative blogger John Hawkins, “have you ever wondered who the worst of the worst was?” Though I . . . . Continue Reading »
Three days off the grid and I’m feeling good, made even better to see a very good review of A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy in the American Spectator. From the conclusion of the review by Rev. Michael P. Orsi:Smith debunks activist claims of the need for animal rights, providing . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Tim Russell, headmaster of Westminster Academy in Memphis, TN, pointed me to a fascinating article in the New York Times by Judith Shulevitz titled, “Creating Sabbath Peace Amid the Noise.” Shulevitz writes:But what if you wanted to revive something like the Sabbath today? What . . . . Continue Reading »
Following up on Heavy Coins, Light Bills , here is an advertisement from Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine : And while I’m at it, here’s another: . . . . Continue Reading »
In a L’Osservatore Romano article titled “Jesus and the Children,” the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments declared that “delaying first communion deprive[s] children . . . of this grace, work and presence of Jesus, of this . . . . Continue Reading »
Why is the future of reasoned Christian disagreement endangered? Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has a penetrating answer in “Knowing Myself in Christ,” an essay that belongs to The Way Forward?: Christian Voices on Homosexuality (Eerdmans, 2003), edited by Timothy Bradshaw. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Words °°°°°° 2. The Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine °°°°°° 3. Mollie Ziegler Hemingway on Motherhood as Vocation How should Christians think about the Mommy Wars? Vocationally. You may have heard vocation used as a synonym for occupation. But . . . . Continue Reading »
Americans calling themselves sovereign citizens “don’t register children’s births, carry driver’s licenses or recognize the court system” and believe that “The government creates a secret identity for each citizen at birth, a ‘straw man,’ that . . . . Continue Reading »
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