They don’t get it either. A few months ago I complained that the House Republicans were out of touch with the conservative movemen t. Turns out that many of the leaders of the Tea Party are too . A gay conservative group and some Tea Party leaders are campaigning to keep social issues off the . . . . Continue Reading »
This year’s Life Prizes have just been announced. In past years, the $600,000 in awards have been split among winners such as Lila Rose (who recently wrote about her pro-life adventures in the October issue of FT). This year’s winners are: Jeanne Head (a UN representative for National . . . . Continue Reading »
The notorious Gunther von Hagens—who plasticizes the dead—is now selling his bodies, perhaps for use in home decoration. From the story:The German entrepreneur, whose Body Worlds exhibitions showed human cadavers in lifelike poses, has told clients they will be able to buy the fleshless . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember that phrase from the Clinton Administration? I do. I also remember lots of arguments with “more sophisticated” colleagues (including some affiliated with prominent evangelical colleges, but I’m not naming names) who suggested that we should look past President . . . . Continue Reading »
When I read the headline of this article on RealClear Politics , I thought the authors were making a familiar conservative case—that Barack Obama’s learning curve in the Oval Office is impossibly steep, that he was (and remains) underqualified for the job. I think I know the . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s second “On the Square” article, associate editor Mary Ellen Kelly reflects on Disney’s Christian Past and Tangled Present . Although the critic Armond White, writing in the December issue of First Things , is absolutely right about the tendency of today’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Sam Walton’s company gave us rural citizens options and opportunities that we had never known. Continue Reading »
The secularist must feel the religious believer is cheating when he responds to the secularist’s arguments, I argue in today’s “On the Square” article, Secularist Cheating . The secularist argues, for example, that people take to religion as a crutch, because they can’t . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times’ profile of evangelical women’s speaker Priscilla Shirer by writer Molly Worthen (Housewives of God) raises some interesting points about the complementarian view of leadership in church and family, intimating that a functional egalitarianism may more accurately . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioedge linked to a story about how Dutch euthanasia statistics are going up—fast. Not surprising, but those statistics aren’t very useful in the end because doctors follow the law or don’t, report euthanasia or don’t: It doesn’t matter much since nothing . . . . Continue Reading »
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