Joe Carter

Since I’m not a Catholic, it’s not really my place to criticize buffet Catholicism. But this sort of thing really irks me: Marquette University announced benefits to the same-sex spouses of faculty and staff, in the wake of controversy surrounding the aborted hiring of a lesbian dean. . . . . Continue Reading »

As Mark A. Signorelli notes , most people—especially conservatives—misunderstand what the reference “a city upon a hill” means: Conservatives are awfully fond of referring to America as a “city upon a hill;” it would be a wonderful thing if they actually made some . . . . Continue Reading »

Is it just me or is April Fool’s Day the worst pseudo-holiday on the calendar? As an infovore who has the strange habit of assuming that people are telling the truth, it drives me nuts to waste a day wondering if what I’m hearing and reading is fake. I don’t get the appeal. Has . . . . Continue Reading »

Last month, Planned Parenthood’s Cecile Richards appeared on CNN’s Joy Behar Show and argued that if federal funding was removed from her corporation, it would lose its ability to provide healthcare services such as mammograms: If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this . . . . Continue Reading »

Sign of the Post-Denominational Times : A Lutheran college that has an Episcopalian as college president is a hit with Jewish students: One of the hottest college campuses in the U.S. for Jewish students is also one of the unlikeliest: a small Lutheran school erected around a soaring stone chapel . . . . Continue Reading »

The recent discussion about evangelicals and the natural law has prompted Dale Coulter, an associate professor of historical theology at Regent University, to weigh in with a perspective from Classical Pentecostalism : Anderson, Ballor, and Carter rightly point out that the issue of the . . . . Continue Reading »

Despite having killed three humans , a bull orca is being trotted out to “entertain” the crowds at SeaWorld: Tilikum, the 6-ton whale that drowned a SeaWorld Orlando trainer in 2010 is performing again. Since the tragic accident, SeaWorld officials say they have taken extensive safety . . . . Continue Reading »

As I mentioned a few weeks ago in my weekly column, the global war against baby girls is not just a phenomenon found abroad. In the United States sex ratios at birth for the Chinese-American population, the Japanese-American population, and the Filipino-American population, and for the . . . . Continue Reading »

Since homeschooling has been a hot top here the last couple of days, I thought I’d repost this entry from last year. Deborah Markus, at Secular Homeschooling , has a list of retorts for homeschooling parents tired of the inane questions and complaints they get about educating their own . . . . Continue Reading »

More than 500 students, parents and other supporters of a Catholic school in New Orleans marched on the offices of Archbishop Gregory Aymond to oppose his call for an end to the school’s policy of using corporal punishment : The protesters called on the archbishop to issue a “public, . . . . Continue Reading »