A Modernist in the Church of England

by Joe Carter

(Yeah, I know: This clip has been floating around the web for a long time. But some people haven’t seen it yet, so it’s new to them .) (Via: Creedal Christian ) . . . . Continue Reading »

11 Oct 2010 0

Poem Awarded Prize for Equating Embryonic Stem Cell Research to the Eucharist

by Wesley J. Smith

To promote stem cell awareness, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine held a poetry contest.  One of the two top winners wrote a poem using the words of Jesus at the Last Supper to apply to embryonic stem cell research: Stem C. This is my body which is given for you. But I am not . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2010 0

How to Offend 101: CIRM Awards Prize to Poem Equating ESCR With Words of Jesus at the Last Supper

by Wesley J. Smith

Hubris and arrogance have no limits for the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine—as I have often shown.  But utter cluelessness?Anyway, here’s the story: To promote stem cell awareness, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine held a poetry contest.  One of . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2010 0

Global Warming Hysteria: Scientists’ Pie Fight

by Wesley J. Smith

While some claim global warming to be a fact, I can’t help notice that there are some very notable scientists with a profoundly heterodox points of view.  And now Harold Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara—who can’t be defined in . . . . Continue Reading »

10 Oct 2010 0

The Moralists’ Just Charge

by David Mills

It is always fun to find a writer you enjoy agreeing with you. Making a point I made yesterday in From Junior High Down to VH1 ,  Andrew Ferguson writes about the once notorious humor magazine   National Lampoon in  Read This Review Or . . . from the Wall Street Journal : In the . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2010 0

Religious Liberty and the Supreme Court

by Joseph Knippenberg

In an important article , Allan Hertzke reflects on the threats to religious liberty in the aftermath of the CLS v. Martinez decision. While he admires Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in that case, he wonders if we are not now reaping what Scalia sowed back in 1990, with his opinion for the . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2010 0

Council of Europe Votes to Protect Medical Conscience

by Wesley J. Smith

As readers of SHS and my other writings know, I think one of the big coming fights in bioethics will be over “medical conscience,” that is, efforts to force Hippocratic and/or pro life doctors to participate in procedures or treatments that involve the taking of human life. Since the . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2010 0

The Monster Your Man Could Smell Like

by Joe Carter

Parodies of television commercials tend to be terrible unless (a) they are promoting a library or (b) they feature a Muppet teaching about a preposition. . . . . Continue Reading »

9 Oct 2010 0

Yet another English Bible . . .

by David T. Koyzis

. . . to fill what some persist in believing to be a desperate need for good translations of the Good Book. This one’s called the Common English Bible, which is an improvement over existing translations because of . . . what? I’m not sure, except that it appears to use more contractions . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Oct 2010 0

SHS Satire: “Hitler Reacts” to Global Warming Video that Blows Up Kids

by Wesley J. Smith

I love these “Hitler Reacts” videos—which have come from, and attacked, both sides of the political street.This one is by my pal Steve Hayward and has Hitler stunned at the “10-10” video—which I reported about here—blowing up school children to promote . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Oct 2010 0