This is being billed as “the closest near miss on record, beating the previous record holder, a rock that buzzed Earth in 2004 . . . .” That’s the pickup truck-sized asteroid called 2011 CQ1 that came within seven thousand miles of Earth February 4. I didn’t notice it, and . . . . Continue Reading »
The NHS is a single payer system, albeit unlike in the USA and many other nations, fully socialized. To put it mildly: It. Is. A. Mess.When economics strain single payer systems, the marginalized and most expensive for which to care are the ones who usually suffer the most. We see that paradigm . . . . Continue Reading »
Were the deceptions by agents of Live Action in exposing Planned Parenthood wrong or right? That’s a question that Christopher Tollefsen and Christopher Kaczor have been discussing the past few days on at Public Discourse (see here , here , and here ). Today, Robert George weighs in on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s “On The Square” essay by Elizabeth Scalia explores what happens when religious and idealogical movements become insecure : Stories like this—where we find Muslims reacting to Christian evangelism with fire and rage— always remind me of the Office of the Dead, which . . . . Continue Reading »
The Economist has a column about why we Americans haven’t jumped with both feet onto the global warming panic. The writer, E.G. (no bylines in TE, which I like), lists some items. His list leaves out some crucial points, such as the unattractiveness of the hysteria angle, the dire . . . . Continue Reading »
Why didn’t Generation X leave the church while the Millennials are leaving in droves? Richard Beck thinks it has something to do with social media tools : The difference between Generations X and Y isn’t in their views of the church. It’s about those cellphones. It’s about . . . . Continue Reading »
John Willson on why, in the 1950s, everybody watched Bishop Sheen : . . . the most popular person on the most visible proof of prosperity, television, was a Catholic Bishop. America’s Bishop, his biographer Thomas Reeves calls him. Fulton J. Sheen did “Life Is Worth Living” on the Du . . . . Continue Reading »
When we gather together as Christians, we let our guard down. We expect that people will be honest about who they are and their motives. We tend not to stop to consider that someone may be engaging in the discussion in bad faith. What if, for example, someone was offering comments . . . . Continue Reading »
A child born without a cerebellum is learning to walk. From the story: A three-year-old boy has baffled doctors after he has started learning to walk, despite missing a key part of his brain. Chase Britton was born prematurely and an MRI scan at the age of one revealed he was completely missing his . . . . Continue Reading »
An eleven-year-old at Salem Lutheran Church in Tomball, Texas explains where Jesus can be found in all sixty-six books of the Bible. He’s such an impressive preacher he could be mistaken for a Baptist. (Via: Kevin Staley-Joyce) . . . . Continue Reading »
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