You thought it was just another American presidential election. But Howard Adelman thinks there’s more to it than that. In an article ” Magic, Comedy, and Civic Religion ” for the Social Science Research Council’s journal, the Immanent Frame: Secularism, Religion, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
My newest “What It Means to be Human” podcast—this edition on “nature rights” in Ecuador—is up at the Discovery Institute site. Here is the . . . . Continue Reading »
Hit this link view an important video of Haleigh Poutre brushing her hair and sitting up in bed. I am not totally pleased with the narration (‘she spends most of her day in a wheelchair, but Haleigh Poutre is very much alive”), however good for the station for airing this important story . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a little good news out of Scotland. Women whose fetuses test positive for Down syndrome are increasingly rejecting abortion. From the story:More babies are being born with Down’s syndrome than before pre-natal screening for the disorder was introduced at the end of the 1980s, it . . . . Continue Reading »
Don’t read this link . I say don’t read it. The culture of blogs and research databases has been promoted as a way of democratizing the business of ideas; everyone can have a voice, and the most minority of minority positions can gain leverage. As the Boston Globe writes, “For . . . . Continue Reading »
From Fr. George Rutler’s weekly column in the bulletin of the Church of Our Saviour, this time on removing references to God in our culture: It would be easy to exploit this out of demagoguery, and some politicians do indeed like to pose righteously protesting against “the removal of . . . . Continue Reading »
Now they’re even trying to domesticate 007 . MI6 is pushing a softer image in its new recruiting campaign. One recruitment officer insists that the agency is “not looking for . . . people jumping out of windows, running around disobeying orders, drinking dry martinis, clutching women, . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, the Scripture readings I heard in church—no doubt the same readings preached to countless other Christians across the country—reminded that Christ is king, that he will return at the end of time to restore his kingdom. That, although he humbly entered Jerusalem on a donkey and . . . . Continue Reading »
About 6 or 7 years go, I gave a lecture at Princeton University about bioethics. This was just after Peter Singer received his tenured chair at Princeton and the appointment was still a matter of heated controversy. As a planned part of the lecture, I discussed Princeton’s then newest . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the perks of being friends with a world famous author is that you get to read advance copies of his books. Last month, I had that great pleasure with Dean Koontz’s newest novel, Your Heart Belongs to Me.I knew going in that the story is about a man who needs a heart transplant. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
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