The secularist must feel the religious believer is cheating when he responds to the secularist’s arguments, I argue in today’s “On the Square” article, Secularist Cheating . The secularist argues, for example, that people take to religion as a crutch, because they can’t . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York Times’ profile of evangelical women’s speaker Priscilla Shirer by writer Molly Worthen (Housewives of God) raises some interesting points about the complementarian view of leadership in church and family, intimating that a functional egalitarianism may more accurately . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioedge linked to a story about how Dutch euthanasia statistics are going up—fast. Not surprising, but those statistics aren’t very useful in the end because doctors follow the law or don’t, report euthanasia or don’t: It doesn’t matter much since nothing . . . . Continue Reading »
Considering that many of the scholars that blog here are, to one degree or another, Straussians, I found this blog over at Spengler . . . well, informative. http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/spengler/2010/10/22/leo-strauss-destroyer-of-judaism/ Because I’ve not read Strauss and what . . . . Continue Reading »
Politico asks and answers the question: “Was abortion a wave-stopper for Democrats in 2010?” As many of the anti-abortion Democrats elected over the last four years were going down in defeat, the party made abortion a central concern in a handful of battleground Senate races — and . . . . Continue Reading »
You’ve probably heard this argument before, but that’s no reason not to repeat it: the more traditional and orthodox the believers, the more children they’re likely to have. Conversely, the closer to the atheistic end of the spectrum people are, the fewer children they’re . . . . Continue Reading »
As I’ve hopscotched around the internet the last month I’ve come across a G. K. Chesterton quote that offers some wisdom in how we relate to the church. He is speaking of his love for England, but the love he shows for England here is a terrific example of the love we can and . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was in Australia last July, I clashed with Green Party officials over the party’s plan to legalize euthanasia. But the party’s support for doctor administered death is only a small part of its destructive potential.The Green Party is rife with anti humanism, as Liberal (the . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend sends his three favorite quotes from Dorothy Day, taken from Msgr. Charles Pope’s A Critique of Those Who Want Christ Without the Church , subtitled “A Meditation on Dorothy Day’s Love of the Church.” They are: Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and . . . . Continue Reading »
The recent election brought anti Obamacare Republicans into power in several important states, both in the governor’s chair and as the majorities in state legislatures. That could make even tougher slogging for Obamacare. A commentator at the conservative Manhattan institute shows . . . . Continue Reading »
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