Studies show that a child’s perception of God is influenced by their parents : When parents are more supportive of a child’s autonomy– giving her a sense that she is control of her own life – a child is more likely to see God as a more forgiving God. God is an authority figure . . . . Continue Reading »
I gasped when I read the story in The New York Times . The folks at National Public Radio fired Juan Williams, ostensibly because of his comments on “The O’Reilly Factor,” which were judged by NPR to be “inconsistent with our editorial standards and practices, and undermined . . . . Continue Reading »
A revealing list of what most people are using search engines to search for. A model of Minas Tirith made completely of matches . Oscar-winning actor F. Murray Abraham will play John Henry Newman in a “biopic” to be filmed in England called The Unseen World . An American scholar . . . . Continue Reading »
Making a point similar to R. R. Reno’s in The Bohemian Mystique is a writer for Mercatornet, reviewing the new book Pornland : Historically speaking, the 1950s are typically associated with the rise of suburbia and infamous for Leave It To Beaver style pro-family media representations. . . . . Continue Reading »
A piece in The New Republic wonders why people are so opposed to Obamacare and the mandatory purchase mandate. From “Who Doesn’t Want Health Insurance?” by Jonathan Cohn:There are obviously some people who don’t have health insurance and, furthermore, don’t want to have . . . . Continue Reading »
Greg Forster argues that the Tea Party movement taps into the full social and cultural power of transcendent moral appeals in a way that social conservatives have never been able to do: I expect social conservatives would generally agree that what’s most fundamentally wrong with our society is . . . . Continue Reading »
Jim Lindgren, a law professor at Northwestern, explains how the concept of separation of church and state became part of the law of the First Amendment : 6. The phrase “Separation of Church and State,” as Philip Hamburger establishes in his classic book on the subject, is not in the . . . . Continue Reading »
For many people, writes R. R. Reno in The Bohemian Mystique , the English painter Lucian Freud’s youthful adventures with criminals and other maladjusted misfits give his artistic vision a special authenticity. His experiences “on the margins” create a “transgressive . . . . Continue Reading »
Our subject for this post is hypocrisy, that is, the hypocrisy of one of the most famous hand wringers about global warming. We’ve seen Al Gore with his many houses and private jets. Tom Friedman, with his mansion. And now, director James Cameron joins the kids at the . . . . Continue Reading »
One recent addition to the same-sex marriage debate is the claim that by advancing arguments that civil marriage ought not to become gender-neutral, conservatives have “blood on their hands,” having committed the polemical equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater, especially given . . . . Continue Reading »
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