More on Mothers

Speaking of motherhood . . . Have you seen the over-the-top article in the Nation about Conservative Christian fears about demographic collapses and efforts to win the various culture wars by out-populating the enemies? Ross Douthat described the article with this: “the piece basically reads: . . . . Continue Reading »

Is “Unaffiliated” a Religion?

As Ryan notes , the Catholic Church, according the Pew report , has lost the greatest number of believers in recent years. But the “unaffiliated” . . . faith? denomination? ecclesial community? . . . has burgeoned to 16 percent of the U.S. population, making it “the . . . . Continue Reading »

The Church and Intrinsic Evil

Bill Donohue of the Catholic League (of which I am a proud member) issued a press release yesterday attacking an idiotic column by one Joe Feuerherd that appeared in the Washington Post . In that column, Feuerherd blasted the Catholic bishops of this country for supposedly telling him who to vote . . . . Continue Reading »

Tragic

The Telegraph reports: An artist killed herself after aborting her twins when she was eight weeks pregnant, leaving a note saying: “I should never have had an abortion. I see now I would have been a good mum.” Emma Beck was found hanging at her home in Helston, Cornwall, on Feb 1 2007. . . . . Continue Reading »

Pew Report

Yesterday, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life released a new study, the ” U.S. Religious Landscape Survey .” It’s a fairly comprehensive study, coming in at 148 pages and featuring 35,000 interviews. The basic gist is that religious life and practice in America is robust, . . . . Continue Reading »

Coming to a Town Near You

So, I’m doing a little lecturing, here and there, over the next month or so. If you’re in the neighborhood, why not drop by? (1) The first is on Tuesday, March 4, at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois, at the spring conference of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics. The talk is . . . . Continue Reading »

Natural Straw Man

There was a just down-right bizarre op/ed in Sunday’s New York Times . Here’s the penultimate paragraph: Unfortunately, humans seem to forget this fact when we find ourselves turning to nature to guide us through difficult choices, such as arguments about whether life begins at . . . . Continue Reading »