As an Irishman, on my father’s side, I’m very pleased to celebrate Saint Patrick’s day as the day to honor the one who was instrumental in bringing the Gospel to my ancestoral people and home. Here from “Crosstalk.com” is the real story of Saint Patrick:If you ask people who Saint Patrick . . . . Continue Reading »
To our shame, most evangelical Protestants tend to think of Saint Patrick as a leprechaun. As we watch the annual drunken parades and pop-culture consumerism of the March holiday, no one could seem more removed from biblical Christianity than Patrick. And yet, Patrick’s life was closer to a . . . . Continue Reading »
I have long thought that bioethics is something of a pseudo field. Not that the matters with which it grapples are not important. They are crucial. And not that its thinkers are not morally serious—they are. But it has always seemed to me that bioethics lacks focus, e.g., that . . . . Continue Reading »
David Goldman says that Democrats should pay for their appeasement of Iran : It is easy for Republicans to chide the Administration for taking an inappropriately hostile tone for an American ally popular with the public [Israel]. But the real scandal in American foreign policy, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
The news of a $30 million, 3D movie of the creation account based on the Book of Genesis is a reminder that throughout history people have been awed and thrilled by retellings of their culture’s creation story. Aztecs would tell of the Lady of the Skirt of Snakes, Phoenicians about the . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights activists would never stop screaming if the actions they take were directed against them. They demand the right to free speech—which some activists expand beyond recognition to include threats, intimidation, and even bombings—but have little problem with denying it to . . . . Continue Reading »
Note to Joel Osteen: When you get called out for not preaching the gospel by Benny Hinn—yes, Benny Hinn—it might be time to consider a new profession.Benny sounds a bit like Mark Driscoll in this video (and that’s a good thing). (Via: Rae . . . . Continue Reading »
Since I work at a technical institute I will tread carefully in my criticisms of the problem an obsession with technology poses to the university . James has already announced this excellent symposium in The New Atlantis but it’s now available in its entirety online. Our own Peter Lawler . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was driving in to work today, and the news/traffic/weather station I listen to on the commute every day comes up with this story about the 9-1-1 call Corey Haim’s mom made to the police when she found her son unconscious and not breathing. They actually played the tape the police . . . . Continue Reading »
In a USA Today column, Rod Dreher makes the case that voodoo—and other minority religions—shouldn’t be off-limits from journalistic examination: In a recent New York Times column, religion reporter Samuel G. Freedman rightly lamented the way the American news media have largely . . . . Continue Reading »
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