Joe Carter

Back in January 2010, I posted a link to an article on MSNBC which claimed that a new archaeological findings revealed the work was performed by skilled laborers who had the perks of a labor union. Mark Shiffman, an assistant professor of Humanities at Villanova University wrote in yesterday to . . . . Continue Reading »

Raymond Tallis on the metaphysical limitations of neuroscience : The republic of letters is in thrall to an unprecedented scientism. The word is out that human consciousness - from the most elementary tingle of sensation to the most sophisticated sense of self - is identical with neural activity in . . . . Continue Reading »

Shahbaz Bhatti was a Catholic and a Pakistani minister for the defense of minorities who dedicated his life to the “struggle for human equality, social justice, religious freedom, and to uplift and empower the religious minorities’ communities.” He was assasinated yesterday . . . . Continue Reading »

The Ohio legislature will soon hear “testimony” from it’s youngest witness ever : A fetus has been scheduled as a legislative witness in Ohio on a unique bill that proposes outlawing abortions after the first heartbeat can be medically detected. Faith2Action, the anti-abortion . . . . Continue Reading »

During the late 1970s and early 1980s I spent two extended periods living below the poverty line. The first experience came as I entered the first grade. My father was a chronically unhappy man who was skillful and ambitious, yet prone to wanderlust. Every few months we would move to a new city so that he could try his hand at a new occupation … Continue Reading »

Wait, what? Obamacare hasn’t been repealed? Why didn’t someone tell us? Nearly half of all Americans believe the health care reform law has already been repealed or aren’t sure one way or the other, a new Kaiser Family Foundation poll shows. Fifty-two percent of Americans believe . . . . Continue Reading »

From Utne Reader : Hollywood’s romantic comedies aren’t just innocuous cinematic tripe. They’re actually  warping children’s minds (pdf), according to new research from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The films, including  Notting Hill and  You’ve Got . . . . Continue Reading »

Did you miss last year’s NCAA Basketball tournament because you were reading  Middlemarch ? Have you ever argued with friends about the merits of  Pale Fire versus  Gravity’s Rainbow ? Then you’re a candidate to catch the march madness for fiction lovers—the . . . . Continue Reading »

Last Summer I noted that some people think that only solution to global warming is to “think about cooling the planet” by using geoengineering. One of the proposed geoengineering solutions was to loft between two million and ten million tons of sulfur dioxide into the lower . . . . Continue Reading »

A clash of Christian cultures in the Pacific Northwest is producing unexpected results : James Wellman’s fascinating Evangelical vs. Liberal: The Clash of Christian Cultures in the Pacific Northwest compares and contrasts evangelical and liberal Protestant (or mainline) churches along the . . . . Continue Reading »