Alister McGrath explains the concept of faith for the New Atheists: As William James pointed out many years ago, religious faith is basically “faith in the existence of an unseen order of some kind in which the riddles of the natural order may be found and explained.” Faith is based on . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m very sorry not to have time to post here. On the BIG THINK front, I’ve been trying to mainstream pomocon ideas on happiness, evolution, and all that. In the thread, I called Darwinian Larry a closet Epicurean. Here’s what I meant: The theory of evolution for him is really a . . . . Continue Reading »
While you might have a hard time finding a seat at Sunday Mass, there is plenty of pew space in the mainline denominations : The Roman Catholic Church is growing, but most mainline and evangelical Protestant churches are losing members, according to the 2011 Yearbook of American & Canadian . . . . Continue Reading »
When my mother called me on the phone to tell me about a book she’d recently read, I listened with some interest, but begged her not to send it along. She is the type of person who will immediately run to the post office or to UPS to ship a book or anything else that is not nailed down . . . . Continue Reading »
The Leftist bias in major universities can’t be denied. With regard to issues dealt with here, can you imagine a pro lifer with the credentials of Peter Singer—who doesn’t even have a Ph.D—given one of the most prestigious chairs in bioethics in the world, as Singer was . . . . Continue Reading »
This is being billed as “the closest near miss on record, beating the previous record holder, a rock that buzzed Earth in 2004 . . . .” That’s the pickup truck-sized asteroid called 2011 CQ1 that came within seven thousand miles of Earth February 4. I didn’t notice it, and . . . . Continue Reading »
The NHS is a single payer system, albeit unlike in the USA and many other nations, fully socialized. To put it mildly: It. Is. A. Mess.When economics strain single payer systems, the marginalized and most expensive for which to care are the ones who usually suffer the most. We see that paradigm . . . . Continue Reading »
Were the deceptions by agents of Live Action in exposing Planned Parenthood wrong or right? That’s a question that Christopher Tollefsen and Christopher Kaczor have been discussing the past few days on at Public Discourse (see here , here , and here ). Today, Robert George weighs in on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s “On The Square” essay by Elizabeth Scalia explores what happens when religious and idealogical movements become insecure : Stories like this—where we find Muslims reacting to Christian evangelism with fire and rage— always remind me of the Office of the Dead, which . . . . Continue Reading »
The Economist has a column about why we Americans haven’t jumped with both feet onto the global warming panic. The writer, E.G. (no bylines in TE, which I like), lists some items. His list leaves out some crucial points, such as the unattractiveness of the hysteria angle, the dire . . . . Continue Reading »
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