Two German kindergarteners who met on New Year’s Eve this year tried to run away to Africa to get married. They weren’t able to tie the knot, but they sure made one cute story : Two German children—aged five and six—have been stopped by police from eloping to Africa to tie the . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Christmastide is quickly drawing to a close, and it looks like record numbers spent time this Christmas, not in church or with family, but on Facebook . . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Erasmus lecture ( featured in the current issue of First Things ), “Christianity Face to Face with Islam,” Robert Louis Wilken makes a generalization that seems unassailably true: Most of the territories that were Christian in the year 700 are now Muslim. Nothing similar has . . . . Continue Reading »
The next time you are tempted to scoff at folk with disabilities who worry that they many people think their lives are not worth living, remember this story. Two medical technicians from the UK have been arrested for allegedly deciding that the life of a man with disabilities wasn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide is not really about a “safety valve” against intractable suffering—that is just an assertion intended to soften the political ground, a cynical tactic intended to panic the public into supporting killing as an acceptable answer to human suffering. Scotland is the . . . . Continue Reading »
Which event in bioethics/human exceptionalism is most likely to happen in 2009? ( . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, Christmas and New Years have come and gone and I didn’t have my usual two-fingers of Buffalo Trace. I did spend time with the beloved first-wife engaged in theological problems and recounting Christmases past with the house strewn with desecrated wrapping paper and joyous . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ll confess to being a little bit dissatisfied both by Helen’s latest screed contra statistics and by Prof. Kenneally’s argument that science improperly understood ignores the qualities of our lived experience . Both have managed to say a lot of true things but neither, in my . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, this is rich: The President of Ecuador is one of the first to be on the receiving end of the ridiculous granting of “rights” to nature that he put in Ecuador’s new constitution. It seems Correa wants to open up some of the country to mining, which would increase the . . . . Continue Reading »
"At the time and in the country in which the present study was written, it was granted by everyone except backward people that the Jewish faith had not been refuted by science or by history . . . . [O]ne could grant to science and history everything they seem to teach . . . . Continue Reading »
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