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April 2010

April 26, 2010

Did Porn Cause the Financial Crisis?

That is the headline in an article in "The Atlantic": The above headline might seem...

April 08, 2010

On vows of celibacy & sexual sin

Luther and the Lutheran Confessions (explaining "thou shalt not commit adultery") on the problems of...

March 2010

March 31, 2010

Abstinence funding

The health care reform bill consisted of 1,990 pages. Congressmen could hardly have read what...

March 30, 2010

Catholicism’s secret sins

I'm not a Sinead O'Connor fan, but the Irish singer--notorious for tearing up a picture...

March 16, 2010

Organ harvest in ER

In a bid to get more organs to transplant, the federal government is funding a...

March 04, 2010

Legalism vs. morality; laws vs. ethics

Raymond Ibrahim takes up the question of why so many jihadists, for all of their...

March 03, 2010

No, you Kant: The categorical imperative

A couple of days ago, in that post about whether or not it would be...

March 02, 2010

Check your phone bill

Look at your phone bill very carefully. It may well contain small charges that add...

March 01, 2010

Is it moral to walk away from your home loan?

Lots and lots of homeowners are "underwater." That is, they owe more on their houses...

February 2010

February 05, 2010

Abstinence education is effective after all

A heavy-duty study published in the peer-reviewed Archive of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine has determined...

February 04, 2010

Opening the military to gays

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, following the lead of his Commander-in-Chief, has...

January 2010

January 15, 2010

Diploma mills

Would you like a seminary degree? An M.B.A.? How about a Ph.D.? Or even an...

January 12, 2010

The man with 400 children

Newsweek tells the story of a sperm donor: [Kirk] Maxey, 51, happens to be one...

January 11, 2010

Tolerance embraces proselytizing

Michael Gerson makes some excellent points about the Brit Hume controversy, particularly that religious freedom...

January 04, 2010

One tenet of sexual morality that has come back

Don't miss Mary Eberstadt's article in First Things: How Pedophilia Lost Its Cool. She shows...

December 2009

December 09, 2009

Paper Tiger

Our culture pretends to be free and easy about sex, but we really aren't. I...

November 2009

November 25, 2009

Climategate e-mails

Hackers broke into the computers of some prominent global warming scientists, whose e-mails show them...

November 24, 2009

Preach about Hell to improve the economy

Here is a fascinating article on the influence of specific religious beliefs on economic growth....

November 24, 2009

“Inappropriate” vs. “Improper”

Edward Skidelsky in Prospect Magazine writes about Words that think for us . He notes...

October 2009

October 21, 2009

Racism against Robots

Economist Robin Hanson uncovers some original sin when it comes to fantasies about robots. It...

October 19, 2009

“You had said we did this for a show”

If you try to pull off a scam, do not trust your six year old...

October 16, 2009

Aren’t conservatives allowed to buy football teams?

Carl Cannon on Rush Limbaugh not being allowed to own a part of the St....

October 05, 2009

The gulf between the entertainment world and America

Over 100 Hollywood moguls and insiders--including Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, David Lynch, and Harvey Weinstein--have...

September 2009

September 30, 2009

On the job at the National Science Foundation

Some employees of the taxpayer-funded National Science Foundation are not spending their days doing science....

September 23, 2009

Hitler as bohemian artist

Art historian Birgit Schwarz is making the case that Adolf Hitler, who considered himself an...

September 16, 2009

The false gospel of moralism

Albert Mohler, a Baptist, draws attention to a fatal confusion that plagues contemporary Christianity: In...

September 14, 2009

Educating children to be normal

My colleague Mark Mitchell has published a scintillating article in Touchstone that touches on one...

September 10, 2009

Clergy sexual abuse?

Now this is disturbing: One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has...

August 2009

August 31, 2009

Glitch in ELCA/Methodist fellowship

As we have blogged about, the ELCA and United Methodists agreed to go into full...

August 27, 2009

Permissiveness, legalism, and the Gospel

That the ELCA approved same-gender sex is thought of by supporters as an act of...