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January 2010

January 12, 2010

The man with 400 children

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

January 05, 2010

How do home-schooled kids do as adults?

Really well, according to a study of Canadian home-schooled adults: Despite what many might believe,...

December 2009

December 29, 2009

Sweden seizes home-schooled child

The Christian Telegraph reports that Swedish government seizes child from home schooling family: A Christian...

December 14, 2009

Consequences of the “one-child policy”

Just as some Westerners have started advocating laws to prevent families from having more than...

December 09, 2009

Paper Tiger

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

December 01, 2009

The Manhattan Declaration

Here is The Manhattan Declaration, "A Call of Christian Conscience" put together by over 150...

November 2009

November 25, 2009

The young picking up the tab for their parents

Economics columnist Robert J. Samuelson finds another quirk in the Health Care bill. Already, our...

November 20, 2009

Selling the end of the world to Christians

Have any of you seen 2012, the movie based on the notion that ancient Indian...

November 18, 2009

Abortion rates in red states & blue states

Michael Barone gives a state-by-state breakdown of abortion rates. He concludes that there is a...

November 13, 2009

Catholics will stop social services if D.C. passes gay marriage law

Catholic Church gives D.C. ultimatum on same-sex marriage issue - washingtonpost.com: The Catholic Archdiocese of...

November 13, 2009

A child with three parents

'Three parent babies' take a step closer to reality - Telegraph: Researchers used eggs from...

November 09, 2009

Our squirrelly Sunday

Sunday was one of the oddest days I have ever known. It was our grandson's...

November 04, 2009

Conception without male or female

Scientists have used stem cells to generate both sperm and egg. This opens the way...

October 2009

October 27, 2009

Sweden skis down the slippery slope to gay marriage

Setting up legalized domestic partnerships for homosexual couples is a better option to gay marriage,...

October 20, 2009

Parental rights vs. religious freedom

What do you think about the Ohio teenager who became a Christian and later fled...

October 19, 2009

Education and Fathers

Patrick Welsh, a teacher in our nation capital's struggling school system came up with a...

September 2009

September 22, 2009

Monogamous culture vs. polyamorous culture

At the World Congress on Families in Amsterdam, Dr. Patrick Fagan said that we are...

September 21, 2009

Puritanical attitudes towards sex

Nearly everything you know about Puritans is wrong. The Thirsty Theologian quotes my friend Leland...

September 17, 2009

Getting rid of marriage

As we argue about marriage, gay marriage, and issues about marriage, some people are already...

September 15, 2009

Prayer before sex

A Roman Catholic publisher in England has come out with a Prayer Book for Spouses...

September 14, 2009

Educating children to be normal

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

August 2009

August 07, 2009

An early marriage

On the heels of our most excellent discussion yesterday about early marriage, I should bring...

August 06, 2009

The Case for Early Marriage

Mark Regnerus in Christianity Today makes the point that the Biblical solution for sexual immorality...

July 2009

July 07, 2009

Home again

Well, we're back from the road trip, in need of a vacation from our vacation....

June 2009

June 25, 2009

More Republican vice

The governor of South Carolina, Mark Sanford, just up and disappeared for six days. No...

June 22, 2009

Fathers, reconsidered

Happy belated Father's Day to all fathers and people who have had a father, which...

June 19, 2009

Welfare breakthrough

The L.A. Times tells of a revolutionary idea that will save millions in welfare costs:...

May 2009

May 27, 2009

California Supreme Court upholds vote banning gay marriage

The California Supreme Court upheld the Proposition 8 election results, meaning gay marriage is illegal...

May 20, 2009

Aliens in a strange land

Anthony Sacramone at Strange Herring gets serious, issuing a manifesto, of a sort. Read it...

May 07, 2009

D.C. vote on gay marriage entangles Congress

The city council of the District of Columbia has passed a bill legalizing gay marriage....