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September 2011

September 21, 2011

Drones that kill on their own

On the horizon of military technology: Drones that "decide" on their own whom to kill:...

September 19, 2011

Divorce on grounds of Alzheimer’s

So what all is disturbing about this? Pat Robertson advised a viewer of yesterday's 700...

September 16, 2011

Kamikaze update

You know that recent post about Heather Penney, the female pilot who was ordered to...

September 07, 2011

Peace or Truth?

Michael Hannon uses a Luther quotation to get at the essential difference between liberalism and...

September 02, 2011

Party our way into extinction!

People who oppose abortion like to call themselves "pro-life." Proponents of abortion object to that term,...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Human experimentation

Around the time Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was conducting his brutal medical experiments on human...

August 30, 2011

Mass murder, while remaining “decent”

Guy Walters discusses the Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Brevik and argues that he is not necessarily...

August 11, 2011

Anonymity and temptation

The young rioters in England wear hoods and masks to hide their identities. British authorities...

August 10, 2011

Authority crisis

Rioters as young as nine are looting shops and burning buildings in cities across Great...

July 2011

July 27, 2011

Compromise

by Jimmy Veith For many, the word “compromise” has negative connotations. People who “compromise” are...

July 26, 2011

Bishop tells gay priests they have to get married

Now that New York state has legalized gay marriage, the Right Reverend Lawrence C. Provenzano, Bishop of...

July 15, 2011

And now the Marriage Pledge for politicians

Republican presidential candidates keep getting asked to sign pledges--not to raise taxes, to oppose abortion,...

July 13, 2011

Sexual moralism vs. the gospel?

John at Redeemed Rambling, a Reformed Baptist, maintains that many conservative Christians are talking so...

July 06, 2011

Atheocracy

Denver bishop James D. Conley offers a potentially useful new word: In our day, those...

July 05, 2011

And now, consensual adultery

Gay marriage is not the only revolution in the works. The lead article in the...

July 05, 2011

The drone wars

The world's military industrial complex--impressed with the USA's ability to zap enemies from the air...

June 2011

June 30, 2011

To ban or not to ban

That is the question. . . .I think it's good for people to hear from...

June 30, 2011

The sociology of the gay marriage debate

Australian Frank Furedi, a professor of sociology at the University of Kent, looks at the...

June 29, 2011

The ethics of evangelism

Representatives of the World Evangelical Alliance (evangelicals), the World Council of Churches (mainline liberal Protestants,...

June 22, 2011

“Is” vs. “Should”

Tom Gilson observes the shift that has taken place among those who reject the exclusive...

June 16, 2011

Getting treatment

Ruth Marcus, writing in the Washington Post, notes that today bad behavior is thought of...

June 15, 2011

“But it’s not really adultery!”

My old friend Karen Swallow Prior has some interesting observations about the excuses of both...

June 10, 2011

Concubines

Alan Wisdom has a brilliant article in Salvo, bringing back a word we need again...

June 10, 2011

The legacy of Dr. Death

Dr. Jack Kevorkian, a.k.a. "Dr. Death," died the other day, of natural causes and not...

June 07, 2011

The Honorable Anthony Weiner

So Congressional Representative Anthony Weiner, D-NY, now admits that he twittered the lewd photo and...

May 2011

May 30, 2011

Absolute ethics vs. Pragmatism

If postmodernists are right in saying that there are no absolutes of truth or morality,...

May 27, 2011

Homosexuality & abusing priests

A $2 million study of the priest child abuse scandal, paid for in part by...

May 19, 2011

Right wing atheism

Time's Amy Sullivan draws attention to how a number of Republican leaders are fans of...

May 17, 2011

Bin Laden’s porn stash

From the New York Times: The enormous cache of computer files taken from Osama bin...

May 16, 2011

New movement of the Holy Spirit?

From a collection of responses to the PCUSA's decision to remove the celibacy requirement for...