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May 2011

May 12, 2011

Presbyterians to ordain gays & swinging singles

The Presbyterian Church (USA) opened the door to ordaining sexually-active gays--as well as other single...

May 10, 2011

America’s exceptional arrogance in the bin Laden killing?

While we Americans tend to embrace our "exceptionalism," people from other countries often see that as...

May 03, 2011

Equal rights for atheists

We have had movements for equal rights for African-Americans, women, gays. The next victimized, discriminated...

April 2011

April 20, 2011

Pro-abortion theology

Katherine Jean Lopez quotes from "O, Beautiful," a play by Theresa Rebeck, which is getting...

April 14, 2011

The lies of embryonic stem cell research

Embryonic stem cell research, contrary to the rhetoric, will NOT lead to a cure for...

March 2011

March 10, 2011

Newt explains his affair to Christians

Newt Gingrich is gearing up for a presidential run, so he is courting social conservatives....

March 07, 2011

Sex survey surprises

A wide-ranging and embarrassingly detailed survey of Americans' sexual practices turned up some surprises. Abstinence...

January 2011

January 31, 2011

Harm reduction

Idly surfing the internet, I came across the tidbit that a socially conservative party in...

January 24, 2011

Two different reasons to be civil

Michael Gerson asks, "Why, other than upbringing, should we be civil in the first place?"...

January 04, 2011

A pound of flesh

Mississippi governor and would-be GOP presidential candidate has released two sisters from prison, after they...

December 2010

December 10, 2010

Church & family values go up with education

Used to, college graduates went to church less than the moderately educated. For some reason,...

November 2010

November 25, 2010

Gratitude, the Parent of All Virtues

You've got to read Mollie Hemingway's column on gratitude in Christianity Today. Excerpts: Appearing on...

November 12, 2010

How Christianity conquered pagan culture

Michael Craven recounts how Christianity won a culture war: The Roman world was brutal and...

October 2010

October 08, 2010

Maslow’s hierarchy has a new pinnacle of human achievement

Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been a landmark of psychology, used in education and even...

October 04, 2010

The legacy of Bonnie & Clyde

Arthur Penn died, the director of Bonnie & Clyde (1967). Who besides me remembers when...

September 2010

September 27, 2010

Today’s moral blind spots

The Washington Post printed an interesting moral exercise written by Kwame Anthony Appiah: Once, pretty...

August 2010

August 27, 2010

North Korea will release Christian prisoner after suicide threats

Amidst the happy news that North Korea will release a Christian activist from prison, thanks...

August 23, 2010

The Washington Post & the student loan scandal

Last week we blogged about the student loan scandal, how some schools--especially for-profit institutions--are sucking...

August 18, 2010

The nature of marriage

Philosopher Stephen J. Heaney discusses the nature of marriage in the context of the same-sex...

August 03, 2010

Ayn Rand and the virtue of evil

Joe Carter tries to think what he ever saw in Ayn Rand, who despised Christianity...

July 2010

July 26, 2010

No more secrets

Last week the Washington Post outed thousands of top-secret security agencies, to the point of...

July 02, 2010

Dehumanizing your opponent

Conservative commentator Michael Gerson draws some lines that cut through both existing parties and potentially...

June 2010

June 29, 2010

Evil as proof of God’s existence?

Christopher Benson draws attention to a statement by literary critic Terry Eagleton, a Marxist who...

June 28, 2010

The world of teenagers

More from David Mills on what he has learned from studying today's teen fiction: That...

June 15, 2010

Party our way to extinction

Ethicist Peter Singer--he who believes in the killing of the handicapped and unwanted but born...

June 14, 2010

Science and moral decisions

There is a new morning after pill that prevents a fertilized embryo from attaching to...

May 2010

May 21, 2010

Apple vs. Porn

Steve Jobs, the mind behind Apple computing, is making a stand against pornography, even though...

May 21, 2010

Shakespeare and sexual morality

The notable scholar and Catholic commentator Anthony Esolen--whom I have had the privilege of hanging...

May 19, 2010

Another Christian politician caught in adultery

Is it any wonder that Christians are losing their credibility? Indiana congressman Mark Souder's resignation,...

May 10, 2010

Babies know right from wrong

So concludes some Yale researchers, who have devised experiments that show babies as young as...