” Saving nature’s unborn from Gulf oil disaster ,” the headline at CNN reads. Hard to know how the oil spill threatened them, but the subject looked interesting. So I clicked on it, to find that it was a feel-good story about efforts to relocate clutches of sea-turtle eggs to . . . . Continue Reading »
I am afraid to say that I have become a more regular listener to a podcast from an atheist blog than I am a poster here at Evangel. Luke Muehlhauser’s Conversations From the Pale Blue Dot is one of the better podcasts out there that takes time to examine both sides of important issues in . . . . Continue Reading »
Is it the teaching of Christianity that man has dignity? I outlined my problem with this claim from a philosophical perspective here. Then I was rereading Philippians 2:Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Sam Kean on the periodic table : In some sense, what you might have suspected from the first day of high-school chemistry is true: The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the first positive sign that the UK may get a grip on the disaster that has become the NHS. The new UK government plans a radical overhaul that could take the power away from bureaucrats and permit physicians more latitude on making health care decisions with their patients. From . . . . Continue Reading »
The Department of Communications of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has issued a set of social media guidelines for the use of church personnel, defined as anyonepriest, deacon, religious, bishop, lay employee, or volunteerwho provides ministry or service or is . . . . Continue Reading »
Secretary of State Clinton’s tour of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus last week demarcated a catastrophe for American foreign policy that the mainstream media has not yet absorbed: the return of Russia to great power status. at the expense of the United States. In the Georgian capital of . . . . Continue Reading »
In Why is the Supreme Court Supreme? , the historian Thomas Reeves argues that the Supreme Court works pretty well as it is, or as well as it is likely to. Responding to the question “Why should the American people be ruled by nine unelected lawyers?”, for example, he argues that every . . . . Continue Reading »
The English tabloid the Daily Mail reports on Belgium’s Plan to Wash Its Dead Down the Drain , and the paper is not exaggerating. As the subhead puts it: “Bodies would be dissolved in caustic solution . . . and flushed into the sewer.” The process is called . . . . Continue Reading »
A Meditation on Willa Cather’s O Pioneers!Shortly after the death of Nebraska pioneer John Bergson, his childrenAlexandra, Lou, Oscar, and Emilgo on a “pleasure excursion” to buy a hammock from Crazy Ivar, who obtained the name from his hermetic lifestyle, . . . . Continue Reading »