Kenneth P. Green and Hiwa Alaghebandian analyze the authoritarian turn science has taken since the early 1990s and conclude, If science wants to redeem itself and regain its place with the public’s affection, scientists need to come out every time some politician says, “The science says . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve been watching Christopher Benson take up on behalf of BioLogos this last period of time – I guess it’s over a couple of weeks now, but blogging distorts time. It may have only been last week. Anyway, it seems to me that Christopher wants to embrace the dryer-fresh smell of . . . . Continue Reading »
At WORLD magazine, Mindy Belz points out an interesting fact I hadn’t hear before: Many Americans are surprised to learn that private property is a near-unknown in modern Israel. According to the Israel Land Authority, 93 percent of the land in Israel is in the public domain—either . . . . Continue Reading »
Patheos has an excellent interview with sociologist and historian of religion Rodney Stark. As with anything from Stark, it’s difficult to choose just one section to quote. But here’s the core of his claim: When I was very young, there was a Protestant mainline and they were the . . . . Continue Reading »
There are times when it’s necessary to look through a telescope for the big picture and other times when it’s necessary to look through a microscope for the small picture. Generally, I’m looking through the telescope. That explains why I’m currently reading The Religion and . . . . Continue Reading »
Something for those of you who love the nineteenth century Russian novelists. After reading David Hart’s Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ) , an academic friend wrote me that he did not find Hart’s argument completely convincing. Hart had written, for example, that among the very . . . . Continue Reading »
Patheos has an excellent interview with sociologist and historian of religion Rodney Stark. As with anything from Stark, it’s difficult to choose just one section to quote. But here’s the core of his claim:When I was very young, there was a Protestant mainline and they . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the weekend, courtesy of my friends at Netflicks, the wife and I watched what may be the most under appreciated film in quite some time, The Last Station. Beautifully filmed while adhering closely to period costume, architecture, and environment (1910 Russia) the drama examines both . . . . Continue Reading »
Doctors commit infanticide in Netherlands and don’t face arrest. Instead, they write learned articles about their infanticide practice in medical journals extolling the bureaucratic baby killing check list known as the Groningen Protocol. But when a Dutch mother allegedly does the . . . . Continue Reading »
A few links mainly of interest to Catholic readers. Writing in the New Statesman , Carla Powell demands that liberals end their hostility to the pope , partly because he’s right about something they don’t see. Moral relativism has become a kind of intellectual disease, weakening . . . . Continue Reading »
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