According to the National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior—and contra the impression presented by Hollywood—the vast majority of teenagers are not having sex : Many surveys of adolescent sexual behavior create an impression that adolescents are becoming sexually active at younger . . . . Continue Reading »
Is religious poetry making a comeback? Peggy Rosenthal at Image thinks so: When I was in college and grad school in literature in the 1960s, God was never mentioned in my courses—except as a metaphor. The poetry even of overtly religious writers like Herbert and Donne was read for its witty . . . . Continue Reading »
Seems like there’s a whole lot of Newman talk going on around here lately. It’s like he’s been beatified or something! I can’t exactly get behind that, but I can add my admiration of Newman’s Christian intellect to the chorus.There’s something I read in Newman . . . . Continue Reading »
I’d been thinking that pointing you to the Christian Century ‘s authors’ lists of the 5 most essential theological books of the last 25 years would spur you to give your own lists, but apparently not. Ranking people, making lists, and sharing such judgments are usually . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, it’s the law—for now. But most Americans oppose it. The Republicans are running on repealing it. The democrats are running away from it. Obamacare is on the rocks and may yet die a’borning.Don’t take my word for it. None other than an editorial in the . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been made aware of so much perversion in our fallen world, so much that is sick and twisted, that I thought nothing else could shock me. Then someone goes and puts broccoli in a cupcake . I don’t think I know any culinary sociopaths, but just in case I’ll say this: If you . . . . Continue Reading »
Michael Liccione explains the Gnostic Impulse . It is, he writes, “cosmic cynicism . . . the attitude which naturally springs up when we disbelieve that the ‘cosmos,’ that vast, more-or-less ordered whole we experience, is the product of a Love and a Reason that are one.” . . . . Continue Reading »
A story in The Hill—one of the main newspapers serving the U.S. Capital—once again shows how unpopular Obamacare is in the country. The polling covered districts that are closely contested in the coming election. The result? The call to repeal Obamacare is very popular . . . . Continue Reading »
Thar’s gold in them thar embryos! As a consequence, as I have repeatedly written about, a great drive is afoot to redefine the term and reduce the status of these earliest human beings so that they can be used instrumentally with impunity. Perhaps toward this end, California . . . . Continue Reading »
Rabbi Ari Shvat’s ruling—which appeared in the marvelously-titled study, “Illicit sex for the sake of national security”—says that its okay for female agents of Israel’s foreign secret service, Mossad, to have sex with the enemy in so-called “honey-pot” . . . . Continue Reading »
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