Nature has polled researchers who work with animals about the need for research and the impact that animal rights advocacy has had on their profession. Here is a sampling. From ” Battle Scars,” (24 FEBRUARY 2011 | VOL 470 | NATURE | 453, no link):More than 90% of respondents . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Would Your Manners Cut It in the Victorian Era? So, you love the Brontës and can’t resist a good 19th-century costume drama. But do you have the manners to survive in the Victorian era? Now you can find out, in a delightful video game from the McCord Museum in Montreal, which sends you . . . . Continue Reading »
Mike Huckabee recently criticized two Protestant churches that allowed Muslims to worship in their facilities by saying that Islam “is the antithesis of the gospel of Christ.” Naturally, the mainstream media thought that was an outrageous remark. My Eastern Orthodox friend John Mark . . . . Continue Reading »
Georgia readers of this blog might want to pencil in some of the following dates (or use whatever new-fangled calendar system they have). Next weekend (March 3, 4, and 5), the Drama Ministry of Oak Grove United Methodist Church will be presenting Marsha Norman’s Traveler in the Dark . . . . . Continue Reading »
I am going to, perhaps, take a different approach to this dispute than some of my very good friends. A baby in Canada, known as Baby Joseph, has an incurable neurological disease that will result in his eventual death. The hospital wants to unilaterally remove him from life support . . . . Continue Reading »
The largest trade union in the country is composed of government workers. George Will explains what happens when the government is both the “employer” and the “worker” : Such unions are government organized as an interest group to lobby itself to do what it always . . . . Continue Reading »
The Aghan Christian convert I mentioned early this week has been released from prison : International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Said Musa, an Afghan Christian who was arrested in May and threatened with execution for his conversion to Christianity, was released from prison last week . . . . Continue Reading »
Being young was never what it was cracked up to be. Our media culture wants us to think it’s the greatest thing, but they’re wrong. If someone somehow offered me the chance to go back, I would say, “no, thank you.” Sure, I could stand to have my joints back in the condition . . . . Continue Reading »
Glenn Beck recently sat down with Rev. Billy Graham for a three hour meeting. The differences in worldviews can be summed up in this one line : “I spoke of a growing darkness and evil,” Beck said of his meeting with Graham. “He spoke of a greater growth of light.” So . . . . Continue Reading »
There are many motives for attacking human exceptionalism. I have seen it attacked to permit the materialist religion of transhumanism a free hand. I have seen it attacked to elevate the moral value of animals, nature, and to promote radical environmentalism. I have seen it attacked as a consequence . . . . Continue Reading »
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