First question to ask your doctor: Are you on my HMO? Second question to ask your doctor: Do you believe in God? Atheist doctors are almost twice as likely to take decisions that speed up death for very ill patients as those who are deeply religious, research has found. Those with a strong faith . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest scientific scandal, an internal investigation at Harvard University concludes that Marc D. Hause, their star evolutionary psychologist, is guilty of scientific misconduct for falsifying research on monkeys . Earlier this month, the Boston Globe reported that Hauser, 50, the author of . . . . Continue Reading »
Ken Mehlman, President Bush’s campaign manager in 2004 and a former chairman of the Republican National Committee, made a shocking confession today in an interview with The Atlantic ’s Marc Ambinger : Privately, in off-the-record conversations with this reporter over the years, Mehlman . . . . Continue Reading »
Somehow I missed soaking in Salinger as a young adult. In this, if my current students are any indication, I am a rarity. They know Catcher in the Rye the way I knew That Hideous Strength. If I worried about being Mark Studdock, then they worried about being another misunderstood Holden Caulfield. Continue Reading »
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has released the Labor Day Statement by Bishop William F. Murphy, the Chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. No breaking news, just some well-meaning sentiments and reasonably sound observations. For example, Bishop Murphy . . . . Continue Reading »
A few months ago, I began writing a piece on the teachings of Beth Moore. The fine writers at CT were working on a similar project which became a recent cover story and companion article. There is much to be said about Beth’s influence in the Church that I believe male and female leaders need . . . . Continue Reading »
In Compromise Trumps Apostolic Tradition , George Weigel examines the collapse, through the Anglican insistence on innovating in ways contradictory to the Apostolic tradition, of the “once-promising dialogue” between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. “As I discovered . . . . Continue Reading »
When it comes to ecology, I’m a firm believer in applying biblical principles of stewardship to the environment. Although it is not always obvious what principles should apply, I believe one of the first is to develop a realistic and accurate assessment of man’s effects on our . . . . Continue Reading »
Although it lingered another sixty years, the Sack of Rome by Alaric the Visigoth in 410 marked the downfall of the empire. Gustav Niebuhr, writing in the Washington Post, finds hope in the fact that the Christian religion survived the destruction of its first state sponsor. That, says Niebuhr, . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelicals spend a lot of time fighting about Genesis and the proper interpretation thereof. Catholics spend a lot less time on it for reasons which are not fully clear to me. My area of scholarship is religion, law, and politics, so I am far from expert in this controversy as either a . . . . Continue Reading »
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