Christianity Today has a good article about the resurgence of true first-person storytelling and how it borrows from Christian tradition. It isn’t too much of a stretch to say that this is very much what is happening in live storytelling across New York City. Whether the stories are funny or . . . . Continue Reading »
Featured “On The Square Today” is, first, Joe Carter’s weekly column ; today’s is a reflection on emergent evidence about the origins of atheism—-in particular, origins of the non-philosophical variety: A new set of studies in the Journal of Personality and Social . . . . Continue Reading »
Jack Kevorkian, who assisted the suicide of at least 130 people—mostly depressed people with disabilities, is having a splendid post prison career. He receives $50,000 a speech, he was portrayed by Al Pacino in a puff biopic that won an Emmy. And he is now a public speaker who . . . . Continue Reading »
I try not to get into personalities here. But Jack Kevorkian is an icon of all that I see going wrong with our culture. The man was not—and is not—about compassionate help for people who are suffering. His assisted suicide campaign was always about him.Why do I bring . . . . Continue Reading »
The implications are obvious: Every mother knows that newborns are social creatures just hours after birth. They prefer to look at faces over objects, and they even imitate facial expressions. Now a study sug gests that the propensity for social interactions exists in the womb. Twins begin . . . . Continue Reading »
I thank Joe Carter for noticing an essay of mine on Two Bases of Morality in Catholic Theology originally published in Dappled Things , and I thank both Joe and the various others for taking the time to comment on that essay. Before I respond to those comments, let me provide a little background. . . . . Continue Reading »
When an entire country evicts God, what do they do with his houses? What else, the new gods move in : Making your home a temple is gaining new meaning in the Netherlands, where churches are being repurposed as living spaces. Since 1970 more than a thousand churches have been closed in the country, . . . . Continue Reading »
With 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English, the Oxford English Dictionary is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. Now, for the next two weeks, you can access the online edition for free. Simply login using “trynewoed” as both . . . . Continue Reading »
C & C pretends to “only” want assisted suicide to be legally available for mentally competent, terminally ill adults, generally defined as 6 months to live. But now, it has shown more of its true colors, broadly hinting that dementia patients should have the option of assisted . . . . Continue Reading »
Good grief. I have always thought this was a dumb idea, but not being a scientist, what did I know? Well, it turns out that the world’s largest carbon capture zone—where carbon is inserted underground to keep it out of the atmosphere—may be leaking. From the story:A . . . . Continue Reading »
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