I have my annual predictions for 2010 coming out in the CBC newsletter very soon—which I will link here. One of my predictions, already written, is the passage of Obamacare, without the public option but with some form of non profit national private insurance exchange. It looks . . . . Continue Reading »
The well-known evangelical theologian and historian John Stackhouse has added his name to the ranks of Christians who don’t find much to like about the Manhattan Declaration. There is a twist in this case, though. He isn’t complaining about the alliance between evangelicals . . . . Continue Reading »
A law permitting the execution of gays who have HIV is a very important human rights issue that Christians should engage in united opposition. From the story : The Ugandan legislation in its current form would mandate a death sentence for active homosexuals living with HIV or in cases of . . . . Continue Reading »
The name of René Girard, I’ve noticed, has of late been cropping up on this site a bit more often than usua l. I don’t want to rehearse what I’ve written elsewhere on this remarkably original thinker, now inducted into “The Immortals” of the Académie . . . . Continue Reading »
Check this out. The leadership of the Catholic Theological Society of America protests against being labeled “left-leaning.” Let’s get this straight. The CTSA is committed to real theology. You know the buzz words: “the task of critically examining the faith,” which of . . . . Continue Reading »
Uganda is apparently contemplating imposing the death penalty on gay people with HIV. Astonishing and brutally wrong, the imposition of a culture of death in that it uses killing as an acceptable answer to an issue of human suffering. From the story:The Ugandan legislation in its current form . . . . Continue Reading »
Ross Douthat digs himself in deeper on the matter of Tariq Ramadan. Yesterday I took exception to his appalling comparison between St. Paul and Ramadan, whose terrorist ties prompted the Department of Homeland security to refuse him a visa to take up a faculty appointment at Notre Dame. He had . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s some good adult stem cell news, that has been—as usual—underplayed in the media. Blood stem cells can be engineered to target the HIV virus. From the story:Their study, published Monday in the-peer reviewed online journal PLoS ONE, provides proof-of-principle — . . . . Continue Reading »
When I saw the headline— New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths —I assumed that social scientists were once again wasting taxpayer dollars doing research to confirm what we already know. But then I saw that it was from The Onion and realized that it was meant to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Touchstone recently posted the weekly newsletter from Father Patrick Reardon, Pastor of All Saints Antiochian Orthodox Church in Chicago, IL, and a signer of The Manhattan Declaration. In the newsletter, Reardon addresses two of the specific concerns over the document: the articulation (or lack . . . . Continue Reading »
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