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Rejoinder to Blankenhorn

Thank you, David, for your reply . Little these days surprises me, though some things in our culture do alarm me, as they do also you; and I am grateful for the way in which you have translated your alarm into positive action over these many years. Your response, however, surprises me a little, as . . . . Continue Reading »

Condoms, the Pope, and World AIDS Day

December 1 is World AIDS Day , held annually to raise awareness of the spread of HIV/AIDS and its nearly 35 million victims worldwide. In advance of this year’s World AIDS Day, Craig McClure, Chief of the HIV & AIDS Section for UNICEF hosted an “ Ask Me Anything ” live chat on . . . . Continue Reading »

“A Nation of Singles”: Jonathan V. Last

in the Weekly Standard: ...All of the research, however, indicates that in recent years the fertility rate of Hispanic Americans has been moving downward faster than it has for any other ethnic group. Last week the Pew Center reported that from 2007 to 2010 America’s birth rate dropped by 8 . . . . Continue Reading »

No Sympathy for Anti-Sharia Laws

In response to my criticisms of the thoughtful—-but ultimately misguided—-defense of anti-Sharia laws published by John Witte in  Christianity Today , Matthew   Tuininga worries that while legal neutrality works in theory it falls apart in practice : In  theory  an . . . . Continue Reading »

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