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May 2011

May 10, 2011

Navy chaplains & gay marriages

Chaplains in the navy have been told that they may perform gay marriages in navy...

May 05, 2011

The Museum of Broken Relationships

Art of our times, from the University of Houston: For two weeks this May, Blaffer...

April 2011

April 19, 2011

Tiger Mothers vs. Vocation

One of the best things I've read on the Tiger Mother controversy is this column...

March 2011

March 24, 2011

Paying mothers to get a job or to tend to their kids?

From Freakonomics: Just how important is Mom during a child’s first year of life? A...

March 22, 2011

Maybe Christians aren’t so bad after all

Bradley Wright, a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut, has published a book...

March 21, 2011

Majority of Americans now back gay marriage

And majority rules: A slim majority of Americans now support gay marriage, according to a...

March 14, 2011

A different kind of gay marriage

Ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel have come up with an acceptable form of gay marriage: gay...

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 08, 2011

Facebook and divorce

Back to the bad effects of the internet: Facebook is cited in 1 out of...

March 07, 2011

Sex survey surprises

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

February 2011

February 28, 2011

Dealing with gay marriage

Al Mohler, a consistent defender of traditional marriage and sexual morality, says that, despite his...

February 21, 2011

The Christian divorce rate

We keep hearing that the divorce rate among Christians is the same as--or maybe a...

February 14, 2011

Romantic love and marriage

For St. Valentine's Day. . . . Did you realize that romantic love, as it...

February 09, 2011

Real money for virtual Smurfberries

It's a classic parental scenario: the kid gets the parents' credit card and buys stuff...

February 03, 2011

A law to visit your parents

China, for all of its seeming success, is also having its problems. But it is...

January 2011

January 21, 2011

Tiger Moms

Chinese kids are so successful, says Amy Chua (who also wrote a book on the...

January 19, 2011

Gestational carrier

Movie star Nicole Kidman and her husband, country singer Keith Urban, both of whom hail...

January 10, 2011

Parent one & parent two

U. S. passport applications will no longer ask for "mother" and "father." Instead, they will...

December 2010

December 24, 2010

A serious Christmas

We've been shaken by the death of our former colleague Kristine Luken. I've known lots...

December 16, 2010

Civil unions replacing marriage

Gays want to get married while straight couples want to have civil unions. In France,...

December 15, 2010

Raising children so they will go to church as adults

This has been out for awhile, but I just came across it in the course...

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 22, 2010

Reviving the Nonpartisan Party

I don't know if you noticed, but my brother Jimmy finally read my blog and...

November 05, 2010

More bogus sex statistics about teens

Kevin DeYoung explodes some statistics going around about same sex relations among teenagers: You may...

November 01, 2010

Death is better than Taxes

The estate tax kicks back in on December 31, unless Bush's tax cuts are extended. ...

October 2010

October 15, 2010

Latest marriage findings

The news reports about this Pew Research study focuses on how more college graduates are...

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 07, 2010

The missing pro-family issue

Al Mohler calls "pro-family" activists on a major blind spot: As [University of Washington] Professor...

October 06, 2010

Procreation without sex

British biologist Robert G. Edwards won the 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine for developing the...

September 2010

September 13, 2010

China is reconsidering its one-child policy

A lesson for population-control zealots from a country that put the concept into bloody practice:...