Christianity Today has been asking that question in the past few issues of their magazine. This month they tapped former FT junior fellow Jordan Hylden, now a MDiv student at Duke Divinity School, to answer the question as applied to politics. If you notice the influence of a series of articles . . . . Continue Reading »
How much can Islamic societies be liberalized? For better or for worse, at least this much : Turkey is said to have more transvestites per head than anywhere bar Brazil. . . . In June Istanbul hosted the country’s biggest gay pride parade, with hundreds of unfazed riot police looking on. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, Benedict XVI challenged Christians and Muslims of the world to work together to defend human rights and end discrimination and violence. The speech concluded a three-day meeting of the recently formed Catholic-Muslim Forum: The commandments of love of God and love of neighbor are at . . . . Continue Reading »
As I noted yesterday , over 70 percent of African Americans voted yes on Proposition 8, the California ballot initiative defining marriage as between a man and a woman. The measure passed 52-48. Now, predictably, gay-rights advocates have filed a legal challenge in California’s Supreme Court, . . . . Continue Reading »
A guy walks into a job interview. The interviewer asks him about his qualifications. He says that he wants to be judged on the basis of the interview. He has no qualifications because he has very little experience, but he has been working on his interviewing skills over the past few years. The guy . . . . Continue Reading »
Tomorrow, Billy Graham, a pastor to presidents and preacher to millions, will turn 90: Evangelist Billy Graham, who turns 90 on Friday, is frail from multiple falls and ailments, far from the strapping revivalist who roamed the globe for six decades. Yet before Graham retired in 2005 to his . . . . Continue Reading »
“So if someone were to come up with a catch phrase as simple and vague as ‘Yes, We Can’ . . . ” “Oh, awful. They would have an entire army of extremely energetic, insufferably annoying, mindless pawns at their command.” The Onion analyzes a new gripping problem: . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most important services that medical professionals can offer to the people they serve, I think, is to declare their offices and facilities to be “assisted suicide free zones.” Indeed, I hope that medical organizations create plaques and certificates to that doctors and health . . . . Continue Reading »
This may hurt a little. Any man, no matter who, will respond to a recording of his own voice with “Wait, I really sound like that?” That’s what I felt last week as I heard a smart young student speak in praise of suffering at an ISI lecture, for the slightly embarrassing reason that . . . . Continue Reading »
Fred Kaplan says that the “very fact of a black president with multinational roots unhinges the terrorists’ recruitment poster of a racist, parochial, Muslim-hating United States.” I hear this claim all the time, but I don’t buy it. Is anti-racism really a driving passion in . . . . Continue Reading »
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