I am a Catholic. My Church teaches me to esteem our Muslim friends and to work with them in the cause of promoting justice and moral values. I am happy to stand with them in defense of what is right and good. And so I stand with the young woman in the above video in defense of modesty, chastity, and piety, just as I stand with Muslims like my dear friends Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Dr. Suzy Ismail against the killing of unborn children and the evil of pornography, and with my equally dear friend Asma Uddin of the Becket Fund in defense of religious freedom. In the great document Nostra Aetate, we Catholics are taught the following by the fathers of the Second Vatican Council: Continue Reading »
Here’s a song that knows what it is to feel loneliness midst the Summer of Love:Yeah, I heard a funny thing:somebody said to me,that I could be in love, with almost everyone.I think that people are, the greatest fun…and I will be alone, again tonight, my dear.With “Alone Again . . . . Continue Reading »
Dale Coulter is right that some of our Reformed friends need to quit trying to read charismatic claims out of Protestantism. But B. B. Warfield was better on these issues than they are. Continue Reading »
Rachel Held Evans has recently written a lengthy blog post expressing her take on the morality of contraception. She says that evangelical thinking on the matter has been distorted by “male privilege” and by misguided statements from Republican politicians.In the background of her . . . . Continue Reading »
A serious campaign is underway in Scandinavia to ban the non-therapeutic circumcision of boys. A Danish doctors’ association says that, unless medically indicated, circumcision is a kind of child abuse. A Swedish medical association recommends setting the minimum age for the procedure at 12 . . . . Continue Reading »
