It never ceases to amaze me how often I forget this profound truth:“The center of God’s revelation is Christ. All that God is to us, He is in Christ. All that we know of God, we know through Christ.” (Henry Eyster Jacobs, Elements of Religion, p. 170).So often we are tempted to . . . . Continue Reading »
NASA has released a study claiming that 2000-2009 was the warmest decade since records began being kept in 1880. This isn’t the same thing as saying it is the warmest decade ever, of course. And I am skeptical. First, Jim Hansen is a panic monger, and I don’t believe anything . . . . Continue Reading »
Are Speaker Pelosi and Leader Reid really this dumb? Apparently, they are attempting to resuscitate the seemingly dead health care reform Gargantua by keeping its most onerous provisions and shoving it through the Senate in a process that would require only 51 votes. From the . . . . Continue Reading »
I guess this is one way to deter the suicide industry that has set up shop in Switzerland: Tax it! From the story:Patients who travel to Switzerland to die in Zurich’s so-called suicide clinics could face a 50,000 Swiss franc ($53,000) ”death tax”. Right-wing Swiss . . . . Continue Reading »
FYI (and for your prayers): Evangel contributor David Wayne has been hospitalized again, this time due to complications from some medication he’s just begun for his cancer treatments. Details . . . . Continue Reading »
The Canadian philosopher and bioethicist, Margaret Somerville, has a splendid column out in the Ottawa Citizen on the importance of human exceptionalism and the need to reject animal personhood. Well worth the read. Here’s the link . . . . . Continue Reading »
The Canadian philosopher and bioethicist, Margaret Somerville, has a splendid column out in the Ottawa Citizen on the importance of human exceptionalism and the need to reject animal personhood. From her column:While I strongly endorse their goal of preventing cruelty to all sentient . . . . Continue Reading »
Our legislators are nuts, that’s the only explanation. California is impecunious. We’re dead broke. We are flat on our faces, so deeply in debt it seems we will never get out. In short, we have no money, our pockets are empty, we are one step ahead of the kneecap . . . . Continue Reading »
My son, Andrew, is seven, but he is a very good little reader. I may have mentioned before that in my despair at the amount of effort he was investing in reading about Pokemon, I put him on to Narnia. Since that time, I asked on this site and others for books I should encourage him to . . . . Continue Reading »
James Hanley has a post regarding abortion arguments over at Positive Liberty that is worth your time to read. It’s not that his position is anything out of the ordinary, but does allow the pro-life community to observe some of the distinctions that mark rational arguments and how they might . . . . Continue Reading »
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