Whatever one thinks of assisted suicide—and my position is abundantly clear to anyone following this blog for more than a day or two—when it is undertaken, the death certificate should so state. But the Washington law legalizing assisted suicide legally requires doctors to falsify . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter can speak with more authority about this question than I can. I’m merely an Army brat, having spent the first sixteen years of my life living on or near Army bases in the U.S. and Germany. I was indifferently churched, but did spend time in a variety of Army-sponsored . . . . Continue Reading »
Of theology, that is. The Committee on Doctrine of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is hosting a conference in September, ” The Intellectual Tasks of the New Evangelization .” The purpose? “The Committee hopes this conference will provide an occasion to build . . . . Continue Reading »
The Canadian Supreme Court already ruled that there is no constitutional right to assisted suicide. But, the one thing you can say about assisted suicide activists—they never take no for an answer, they never quit. And now, a new lawsuit is planned. From the story:Nearly two . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m not going to add my weight to the pile already atop the prominent Atlanta law firm that walked away from the defense of DOMA, though I may alter my carbonated beverage purchasing habits somewhat (a bit hard to do in Atlanta). But the willingness of opponents of DOMA to use all sorts . . . . Continue Reading »
The crackpot, anti human ideas keep on coming. The latest proposal comes from an Australian Academic named Dr. John Hadley, who wants to give property rights to animals and provide a court for them—really, a forum for radical environmentalists to legally enforce their own ideological . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter’s column today explores the impulse among some Christians to try to outdo Christ at his own game. Though a good number of Christian groups mandate teetotaling, Carter takes the Southern Baptist Convention to task for its disappointing effort to answer the question, ” What . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, he finally did it. President Obama had DARPA invent a time machine so that he could travel back in time to 1961 (that’s where he was on his last “vacation”) and plant a long-form birth certificate in the office of the Department of Health in Hawaii. You would think this would . . . . Continue Reading »
A member of one of China’s largest house churches explains the recent showdown between Christians and government officials : The global media spotlight has recently centered on the meeting place of Shouwang Church in Beijing. Since April 10, the unregistered congregation of 1,000 mostly young . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark T. Mitchell considers Jane Austen in light of our porn culture : That porn culture changes the way men think is obvious, but it also affects the way women think of themselves. In a hyper-sexualized society, women will naturally tend to think of themselves primarily as sexual creatures. Women . . . . Continue Reading »
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