Following up on my post about Baptists leaders calling for church-goers to have more children, Craig Carter provides a list of six reasons Christians should have large families : 1. God has never rescinded his command to “be fruitful and multiply.” 2. There are numerous passages in the OT . . . . Continue Reading »
An increasing number of well off Western couples are renting wombs of poor women in India to gestate their children. From the story:One leading obstetrician at a Mumbai hospital says she delivers on average one baby to a British couple every 48 hours. One London couple who have taken advantage . . . . Continue Reading »
(continued from 6/1/09) As little inclined as is Charles Taylor to connect the pre-ontological with the metaphysical, religious “experience” with cognitive assertions, he cannot finally avoid making certain claims about the way things are, or at least the way human things are: We all see . . . . Continue Reading »
A horticulturist named George Ball warns against the growing anti humanism of radical environmentalism in a piece in the Wall Street Journal.com . But rather than focus on the disease—the rejection of human exceptionalism— he gets distracted by the symptoms, e.g., violent tactics . . . . Continue Reading »
Having recently purchased an iPhone I’ve been appreciating not only the myriad functions of the device itself but in particular Amazon’s Kindle application , bringing immediate access, in my case, to the Federalist Papers , the Book of Genesis , Shakespeare’s Hamlet and even some . . . . Continue Reading »
A horticulturist named George Ball writes a piece in the Wall Street Journal.Com warning against the radicalization of environmentalism. From, “Naturalism Has Been Hijacked: Man is Not a Cancer on the Planet:”Now a segment of the Green movement presents a fresh challenge to . . . . Continue Reading »
Compassion and Choices has touted a commentary from a blogger named Cynthia Yokey extolling hospice that, unfortunately, also sends a highly misleading message about acute medical treatment. From the quote cited in the C and C blog entry:In the acute care system, you continue to receive . . . . Continue Reading »
Uh, Nathaniel, I believe that that should properly be written, “Shame on the Sea Kitten Tossers!” Just, you know, FYI. via Radio Derb . . . . Continue Reading »
We Southern Baptists tried that for awhile, Nathaniel , but it didn’t work out so well. Turns out that if you baptize a Baptist baby it just makes them cranky, wet, and Lutheran. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ah, Joe , but wouldn’t it increase baptism totals even more if Baptists baptized those babies? Just a thought . . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
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