Growing up attending the “First Church of Hellfire and Damnation,” Joe Carter recounts that it wasn’t easy to warm up to Catholics, but the example of John Paul II quickly changed that. In today’s column he points to areas in which Evangelicals can learn something from . . . . Continue Reading »
Sign of the Times of the Day: In California public schools, students are required to learn about black history and women’s history. And if a bill approved by the State Senate this week becomes law, the state will become the first in the country to mandate that schools also teach gay history. . . . . Continue Reading »
The front page headline in the New York Times deflects the point: “Panel to Curb Medicare Costs Meets Bipartisan Opposition.” An uninformed person might wonder why anyone would be opposed to a panel that would help control costs.Because this “panel” is the Medicare . . . . Continue Reading »
English is now the language of science, diplomacy, business, and the Internet. Thank you, William Shakespeare: So what accounts for the global dominance of the English language? The political and economic supremacy of England and the United States is just the beginning of the explanation. For it . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week , reading Donald Luskin’s Journal op-ed on Ayn Rand, I was deeply shocked and saddened by this sentence: Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) insists that all his staffers read “Atlas Shrugged.” Guess what? Turns out it’s not true! This morning, Ben Domenech - having seen the . . . . Continue Reading »
Forty years ago, biologist E.O. Wilson helped to champion kin selection theory, the idea that an organism trying to pass its genes down to future generations can do so indirectly, by helping a relative to survive and procreate. Now he’s changed his mind. “Kin selection is wrong,” . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I’m against it. Thanks to John, by the way, for a fascinating, If self-indulgent in the good way, post. . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the things that disheartened me about the law—to the point that I quit a successful trial practice—was that the rules of evidence almost as often kept the truth out as prevented falsehoods from coming in to the court’s/jury’s consideration. And that seems to have . . . . Continue Reading »
If an atheist saw a man raised from the dead, would it affect their lack of belief in the miraculous? Probably not, says Rod Dreher . It didn’t change the minds of religious Jews when they witnessed Jesus bring back Lazarus: Christians today marvel at the shortsightedness of those pious Jews, . . . . Continue Reading »
Theologian Fred Sanders clarifies the meaning of “Protestant” : Today (April 19) is the anniversary of the 1529 Protestation of Speyer, which is generally regarded as the first time that the word “Protestant” was used to refer to a religious position distinct from Roman . . . . Continue Reading »
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