As Joe mentioned on Monday , Lisa Miller has a new book out on heaven , and while I haven’t read it yet, the excerpt at Newsweek is intriguing. Miller highlights the paradox of believing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which she claims “has strained the credulity of even the most . . . . Continue Reading »
Like most American boys who grew up in the late 1970s and early 1980s I was fascinated by space exploration. I drank Tang (even though it tasted horrible), took pilgrimages to Houston’s Johnson Space Center, and viewed Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff (both the book and the movie) as a New . . . . Continue Reading »
Paloa Cavalieri is the co-editor and author, with Peter Singer, of The Great Ape Project, which seeks to create a “moral community of equals” among human beings, gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, and bonobos. The point is to “break the species barrier” and bring the . . . . Continue Reading »
While searching the web for something, I came across the Planned Parenthood site and followed a link to a group of theirs called “Republicans for Choice.” It included as a pull-out quote these words from Barry Goldwater: A lot of so-called conservatives today don’t know what the . . . . Continue Reading »
It appears that the “bounce” Democrats claimed would come their way if they shoved a popularly rejected and monstrously bureaucratic law down the throats of the American people, has had the reverse effect. As I have pointed out here, the polls for the new law—and POTUS—are . . . . Continue Reading »
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s regrets to Obama’s nuclear disarmament summit next week marks a new phase in the Obamalypse. In fact, it isn’t as new as it seems, for the Obama administration placed an embargo on the export of nuclear reactor parts to Israel from the beginning. . . . . Continue Reading »
In The Stem Cell Banking Crisis , The Scientist reports that The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has allowed a contract for the dissemination of embryonic stem cell lines approved for US government funding to lapse, shuttering a key stem cell bank, and doubling the price researchers pay for . . . . Continue Reading »
We need to pay attention: In the UK, a woman with a rare cancer has been refused coverage for chemo that would extend her life. From the story:A dying mother last night became the human face of an election battle over the NHS. Nikki Phelps, 37, who has a rare glandular cancer, has been refused the . . . . Continue Reading »
Two of our writers here at Evangel have been up to no good of late. And you should know about it.First, I subject our overlord Joe Carter (who is ultimately to blame for bringing together this rag-tag band of miscreants) to rigorous examination regarding his book, How to Argue like . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe: I second Ryan on this. I am no legal scholar, but it seems to me that, technically, he is not guilty of treason until he has been convicted in a court of law or some other judicial body. Andy McCarthy’s response to Kevin Williamson is unconvincing in this regard as well. He cites the . . . . Continue Reading »
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