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2012-07-30T08:28:02-04:00

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The Largest Group of Oppressed and Enslaved People on Earth

Last updated on: July 30, 2012 at 8:28 am By Timothy Dalrymple

NOTE: The following is a guest post from my sainted father, Galen C. Dalrymple, director at iam2.org, an organization devoted to crowd-sourcing compassion and empowering ministries serving the neediest children in the world. Recently the filmmakers of Not Today, along with my friends at Lovell-Fairchild, took my father to India to learn more about the film. He is an extraordinary man of God with a passion for these issues and stands at the helm of a faith-informed organization that can make a real... Read more

2012-07-25T10:59:33-04:00

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You Built a Company – Now Use It to Build a Better World

Last updated on: July 25, 2012 at 10:59 am By Timothy Dalrymple

You did — with all apologies to the President (I kid) — build it. You built a company. You invested an enormous amount of time and effort and resources into creating a company and now that company is alive and doing its work. You built a company. That’s terrific. Now the question is: What will you build with it? With some exceptions (porn companies, for instance), private enterprise delivers numerous social goods. Companies don’t have to direct funds toward charitable purposes in order to... Read more

2012-07-25T08:52:40-04:00

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Animal Hoarding

Last updated on: July 25, 2012 at 8:52 am By Timothy Dalrymple

Apparently they thought it was Taco Bell: More than 200 Chihuahuas have been removed from what officials are calling unsanitary conditions in a central Pennsylvania home. Some of the dogs were sick, and several dead dogs were apparently around the house. An official refers to it as “an unfortunate situation of animal hoarding.” You see these stories from time to time, of course, especially if you frequent the Drudge Report. Matt Drudge seems to have a fascination with animal hoarding stories,... Read more

2012-07-20T13:03:19-04:00

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Is Batman to Blame for the Colorado Cinema Slaying?

Last updated on: July 20, 2012 at 1:03 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

You’ve probably heard by now of the mass murder at a Colorado cinema showing “The Dark Knight Rises” that has left at least 13 people dead and 38 injured. The gunman, reportedly clad in a black flak jacket and gas mask, entered the theater through the exit door, tossed out one or two canisters that exploded and emitted some kind of gas, and opened fire on the moviegoers. Twenty-five miles from Columbine, the moral monster (I will not use his... Read more

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2012-07-19T16:16:43-04:00

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The Line Between Sexual Freedom and Sexual Perversion

Last updated on: July 19, 2012 at 4:16 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

I just wrote on the controversy-du-jour regarding the role of “authority” and male headship in the bedroom. Since I explained it in detail in the preceding post, please go there if you need context. But I want to respond as well to Rachel Held Evans’ response. First of all, I strongly agree with this point: When your sister in Christ tells you that your words trigger upsetting images of rape and sexual violence, you should listen to her, not dismiss... Read more

2012-07-19T14:31:54-04:00

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Sex, Bondage and Domination

Last updated on: July 19, 2012 at 2:31 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

Accusations of Endorsing Sexual Aggression I had recently arrived for a trimester at Oxford when I took a stroll down High Street and stopped in a little square beneath Carfax Tower. Two straw-haired street urchins were there, apparently all alone, dirty and unkempt. One of them came to me and asked if I had any money to spare, and, being an idealistic college student, I gave her some change I had in my pocket and felt rather good about myself.... Read more

2012-07-14T23:32:19-04:00

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Perhaps Atheists Should Be Hitting the Panic Button

Last updated on: July 14, 2012 at 11:32 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

My friend and colleague David French asks whether Protestants should “hit the panic button” when they see statistical charts like these: My answer would be: No, we do not need to hit the panic button. But it’s a very interesting graphic and there’s much to be learned from it. In the interest of being careful readers of statistics, let me point out a few things: If 50% of Baptists left to become Methodists, and 50% of Methodists left to become... Read more

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2012-07-13T18:02:30-04:00

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Paterno and Sandusky: Why Do We Care Less About the Rape of Boys and Men?

Last updated on: July 13, 2012 at 6:02 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

Would Joe Paterno and the Penn State leadership have done more to protect Jerry Sandusky's victims if they had been female? Read more

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2012-07-13T14:41:02-04:00

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Julie Aftab: My Scars Are “My Jewel, My Gift from God”

Last updated on: July 13, 2012 at 2:41 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

She was 16 years old, working as an operator in a tiny, public call office in Pakistan, when a man walked in and saw the silver cross dangling around her neck. He asked her three times: “Are you a Christian?” Julie Aftab answered, “Yes, sir,” the first two times, and then got frustrated. “Didn’t you hear me?” she asked. They argued, and the man abruptly left the little office, returning 30 or 40 minutes later with a turquoise bottle. Aftab tried... Read more

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2012-07-13T18:06:53-04:00

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Fathers, Don’t Abort Your Daughters

Last updated on: July 13, 2012 at 6:06 pm By Timothy Dalrymple

“I’m Having a Daughter” So you learned the baby you helped to conceive is a girl and not a boy. Already frightened by the idea of fatherhood, already concerned about all the hardships and sacrifices parenting entails, already disoriented by the potential radical change this requires in the way you envision your future, you feel now — even if only slightly — more inclined to want your partner to abort. Perhaps it’s natural. You know how to relate to a... Read more

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