Apparently the defense of the Final Exit Network defendants is going to be based in free speech. From Derek Humphry’s blog entry urging fellow travelers to pony up for the FEN defendants’ legal defense fund:Inevitably, the cases against the Final Exit Seven will be a landmark in American . . . . Continue Reading »
In the aftermath of the pope’s visit to Israel in May, this report came right out of the blue:Tel Aviv (AsiaNews) - The Chief Tax Collector at Israel’s Finance Ministry, Yehezkel Abrahamoff, has notified institutions of the Catholic Church in Israel that he has . . . . Continue Reading »
In the course of criticizing the Obama speech in Cairo, Father Khalil Samir SJ, a Vatican Islamologist quoted frequently and favorably on this blog, threw a bomb in Israel’s direction:Another ambiguous element [in the Obama Cairo speech] concerns his placing on the same scale the legitimate . . . . Continue Reading »
On Friday, President Obama commented on the Iranian election : We are excited to see what appears to be a robust debate taking place in Iran. Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact there has been a robust debate hopefully will advance our ability to engage them in new ways. . . . . Continue Reading »
Doubts about the legitimacy of Friday’s election results in Iran has lead to clashes in the streets between riot police and hundreds of protesters. Gary Sick has more on what may be a political coup by incumbent president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, including this fascinating timeline of events: On . . . . Continue Reading »
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 God has never rescinded his command to “be fruitful and multiply.” 2.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 »
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