In the January issue of Commentary , there’s a fascinating article called “Stem Cells and the President—An Inside Account,” written by Jay Lefkowitz, who was the official “primarily responsible for advising the President” on the issue of stem cells during the . . . . Continue Reading »
? It’s late thirties England and a little rich girl named Briony Tallis with an overlarge vocabulary and pretensions to literary greatness tells a big fat lie to the police and ruins the life of her sister’s love interest (James McAvoy) because, well, she’s got a crush on him too, . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Beliefnet , Michael Kress has a coup of an interview —one that includes audio clips—with Denzel Washington, who starred in two films this year: American Gangster and the just-released The Great Debaters —both based on true stories. Like all the Bnet interviews, which have . . . . Continue Reading »
Repressed-memory syndrome—a claim that dissociative amnesia follows a traumatic experience—was one of the most popular psychiatric diagnosis in the 1980s and 1990s. Back in 2003, Paul McHugh wrote what was probably the definitive account of the long struggle by a handful of psychiatrists . . . . Continue Reading »
So, the actor Will Smith tells a British newspaper that “Even Hitler didn’t wake up going, ‘let me do the most evil thing I can do today.’” Whereupon he is pilloried for praising Hitler. Roger Kimball has a solid roundup of the supposed scandal. Will Smith is, at the . . . . Continue Reading »
Animal rights terrorists are again threatening Oxford University in the UK for building a laboratory that will do research with animals. From the story:Animal rights campaigners are threatening a new wave of attacks on Oxford University as its biomedical laboratory nears completion. Groups such as . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve heard stories like this before: In the UK, deaf parents want the right to ensure having deaf children through embryo selection. From the story:DEAF parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf child over one that has all its senses intact, according to the . . . . Continue Reading »
After you’ve bought this . . . and this . . . and this . . . and this thingee . . . definitely buy this . In The Jesus Legend, Doctors Paul Rhodes Eddy, professor of biblical and theological studies at Bethel University, and Gregory A. Boyd, senior pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, . . . . Continue Reading »
Nativity scenes set the tone of Christmas. There are placid olive-wood ones, arranged in hushed stillness amid pine sprigs and juniper. There are bejeweled rainbow ones, frozen on hills of cotton batting and glinting merrily in the candlelight. There are illuminated plastic figures, the size of . . . . Continue Reading »
True devotion to Mary, as Fr. Neuhaus recently reminded us , always points us to Christ. Like most converts to Catholicism or Orthodoxy, Marian devotion has taken some getting used to for me. I therefore found Frederica Mathewes-Green’s The Lost Gospel of Mary: The Mother of Jesus in Three . . . . Continue Reading »
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