In today’s second ” On The Square ” column, Gerald Hiestand, an evangelical pastor, describes a uniquely modern Christian dilemma: the unsettling schism between pastors and theologians. While the history of Christianity encourages the view that pastor and theologian are part of . . . . Continue Reading »
The last two years have profoundly undermined popular support for GWH. Climategate, contradictory—and always DIRE!—predictions by scientists, false prophesies, explicit anti humanism (which was what attracted me to this as an SHS issue), bad economies, etc., have taken the issue . . . . Continue Reading »
Casual sex doesn’t exist , says biological anthropologist Helen Fisher: Question: Can casual sex trigger love? Helen Fisher: I think that all three of these brain systems can interact with one another, particularly when you have sex with somebody. Any kind of sexual stimulation of the . . . . Continue Reading »
In his column today , Ross Douthat captures well the paradox of how we view the fetus today in America: In every era, there’s been a tragic contrast between the burden of unwanted pregnancies and the burden of infertility. But this gap used to be bridged by adoption far more frequently than it . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interview with RSA Journal , Dan Ariely, a professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University, explains how the Catholic practice of confession helps motivate people to make better long-term decisions: Matthew Taylor: This is the kind of insight that drives me to reconsider . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s “On the Square” column, I look at the magazine Cosmopolitan and the gospel it preaches so relentlessly. It is, as you’d guess, not good news. “On the surface,” I argue in The Cosmopolitan Life , Cosmopolitan portrays in bright zingy prose the . . . . Continue Reading »
MSM like the NYT and culture mavens like Oprah are enamored of procreation stories that break boundaries. The latest installment, in today’s Magazine, presents a very long article about a couple who paid for eggs and hired two surrogates to gestate two children at the same time so that . . . . Continue Reading »
The new regulation compensating doctors who discuss end of life care with Medicare patients during their yearly physicals, continues to make news. I was interviewed for one such article by the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. The reporter was very attentive and quoted me correctly, which is . . . . Continue Reading »
For Christmas this year my beloved wife gave me an antiquarian copy of the Lobwasser Psalter, a sturdy little volume that has weathered the centuries remarkably well. The Lobwasser Psalter was a German-language translation of the Genevan Psalms set to verse in 1573 by Ambrosius Lobwasser . . . . Continue Reading »
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