Odd. This sounds like an authoritative statement to me:While we’re at it, stop using the imperative mood! I wouldn’t use the conditional mood either. And may you never have use for the optative . . . . Continue Reading »
The Center for Bioethics and Culture has a good film out called Anonymous Father’s Day, which deals with the emotional impact on children of sperm donors from not knowing anything about their biological fathers. This too is a form of reproductive commodification and the consequences in . . . . Continue Reading »
Most New Testament scholars agree nowadays that Mark 16:9ff. is not the original ending of Mark. Either it ended with v.8, or there was an original ending that’s been lost (sometimes thought to be something like Matthew’s ending but with differences similar to how Mark normally is . . . . Continue Reading »
National Review’s John Derbyshire has written a racist article at Taki’s Magazine, in which he envisions “the talk” about race relations with his children. Pertinent to the business of this blog, racism is a form of anti HE.Derbyshire traces what he claims to be the . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientists have announced that they have made mature eggs from ovarian stem cells. They want to fertilize said eggs and experiment on the embryos before destroying them after 14 days. From the Independent story:The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on crucifixion and beauty on a Friday afternoon : Roman crucifixion was gruesome. There was no rulebook, so full rein was given, as Martin Hengel has written, to “the caprice and sadism of the executioners.” Some Romans denounced its cruelty. “That plague” was . . . . Continue Reading »
DDT is a very effective pesticide, that helped the USA eradicate malaria as a health problem in the American South. But Rachael Carson blamed it for many environmental woes, and it became discredited. Many, myself included, believe that millions of poor children and others in Africa and . . . . Continue Reading »
I think there are multiple reasons why the Trayvon Martin incident has become a big deal socially. I have a low opinion of the motives of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and I think Carl gets at some of the truth. When something gets this big, a lot of different kinds of people and a . . . . Continue Reading »
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