Joe Carter’s column this week ponders Harold Camping’s most egregious flaw in his prediction of Judgment Day. It wasn’t, mind you, his inaccuracy or even his scandal to non-Christians, but, as Carter argues, his desire to reduce the gospel to a matter of mere calculation, and . . . . Continue Reading »
While the overall trend is encouraging, the increase in abortions among the poor is cause for concern : Abortion rates fell among most groups of women between 2000 and 2008, except for those classified as poor, finds an analysis conducted by the nonprofit Guttmacher Institute and published online . . . . Continue Reading »
So I use the occasion of this gracious review by Mr. Kienker to display my differences with our friends the Claremonsters. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over on our Evangel blog, Gayle Trotter has an interview with former Senator Rick Santorum : GT: You think that President John F. Kennedy made a mistake about the role of religious faith in politics. What was his mistake? RS: Senator Kennedy — he was a senator at the time — made his . . . . Continue Reading »
I know I should be skeptical of popular science reporting (much less glorified press releases ), but until Stephen Barr clarifies that this is much ado about nothing I’m gonna go ahead and let myself believe that an undergrad intern really did find some of the universe’s “missing . . . . Continue Reading »
Chuck Donovan chronicles the pro-life trend in state legislatures : While official Washington occupies itself with soaring deficits, health care costs and the status of the war on terror, state lawmakers have been busy passing law after law challenging one or more core holdings of the high . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The Democrat won in NY-26 easily with 48% of the vote. Republicans are blind if they don’t regard this as one piece of evidence among many of a momentum switch. They’re losing the debate over Medicare. People don’t want it turned into a voucher—or defined . . . . Continue Reading »
The authoritarian attempt to outlaw circumcision in San Francisco—no religious exemptions allowed—stirred quite a hornet’s nest here at SHS when I first brought it up. Having paid attention to the comments, particularly those in support of the ban, I am more convinced than ever . . . . Continue Reading »
Arguably the second oldest and most persistent Christian heresy is gnosticism (the first is legalism). Early forms of it were condemned in Colossians and possibly other Pauline letters, and also in 1 John. Gnosticism splits the “spiritual” world from the visible material world, saying . . . . Continue Reading »
Wow. Pig is an SHS commenter:How Richard Dawkins spends his . . . . Continue Reading »
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