Women should never “settle” with a man in order to have a child. Granted, women are created by God to have longings for procreating and nurturing, and I believe this is evidenced in the fact that women will go to all kinds of technological extremes to have their own biological children. . . . . Continue Reading »
Somehow when there’s discussion of the conflict between science and religion, the blame seems to get laid at the feet of religion. Science is (supposedly) pure and spotless; religion is unthinking, unwilling to face facts and evidence, and of course highly self-interested. Science is based on . . . . Continue Reading »
On the 65th anniversary of the second and last time a nuclear weapon was used in warfare, we would do well to remind ourselves of the criteria traditionally used in evaluating whether or not a given conflict conforms to the principles of just warfare. These principles are generally divided into ad . . . . Continue Reading »
Joseph Bottum’s On the Square column (which, by the way, now appears every Monday) considers the problem of freeloaders and the church : Lately, however, I’ve become interested in the question of much freeloading on the churches has cultural consequences. It’s a simple proposition . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Catholic literary journal Dappled Things, Eleanor Bourg Donlon wonders why they don’t make vampires like they used to : The real problem with so many of these [new vampyre] films is actually they are both too serious and yet not serious enough. In the midst of taking themselves so . . . . Continue Reading »
The great physicist Stephen Hawking, unlike some of the more radical environmental types who scourge us as the AIDS virus afflicting the planet, believes that it is crucial and worth spending untold resources to save human beings from extinction—simply because we are human. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
Kenneth P. Green and Hiwa Alaghebandian analyze the authoritarian turn science has taken since the early 1990s and conclude, If science wants to redeem itself and regain its place with the public’s affection, scientists need to come out every time some politician says, “The science says . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been watching Christopher Benson take up on behalf of BioLogos this last period of time – I guess it’s over a couple of weeks now, but blogging distorts time. It may have only been last week. Anyway, it seems to me that Christopher wants to embrace the dryer-fresh smell of . . . . Continue Reading »
At WORLD magazine, Mindy Belz points out an interesting fact I hadn’t hear before: Many Americans are surprised to learn that private property is a near-unknown in modern Israel. According to the Israel Land Authority, 93 percent of the land in Israel is in the public domain—either . . . . Continue Reading »
Patheos has an excellent interview with sociologist and historian of religion Rodney Stark. As with anything from Stark, it’s difficult to choose just one section to quote. But here’s the core of his claim: When I was very young, there was a Protestant mainline and they were the . . . . Continue Reading »
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