This is funny stuff—imagined depictions of animal chimeras caused “when cloning goes wrong.” There are too many to present here, but here is sampling.(Hit this link to see the rest.)HT: Don . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve been following, here on the First Things website , the case of the Princeton student who admitted on Monday that he had faked attacks on himself last Friday. I find it a fascinating, albeit sad, story, but a pair of our friends—both members of First Things ’ board and both, . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the Cato Institute’s website , Aubrey de Grey, Diana Schaub, Ronald Bailey, and Daniel Callahan are having an interesting discussion under the title “Do We Need Death? The Consequences of Radical Life Extension.” Diana—a professor of political science at Loyola . . . . Continue Reading »
Appreciative piece in the Los Angeles Times about a ragamuffin missions group and the risks its members take—even among their own. It’s too easy sometimes to poke fun at these so-called “edgy” nondenom movements, especially those that huddle under the umbrella of the emerging . . . . Continue Reading »
“Conscience Clause” laws that would permit pharmacists to refuse to fill birth control pill prescriptions or doctors to perform abortions, are growing in political prominence. By way of push back, some states are passing laws requiring pharmacists to dispense birth control pills, and New . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve never understood all the fuss about Santa Claus. Not the believing part: We have no problems in that department, being a happily credulous lot at our house. Two of us, after all, are under the age of six, and the rest of us read fiction without stopping every other sentence to say to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Daily Princetonian has good coverage here and here . I’ll have some further thoughts later today or tomorrow. . . . . Continue Reading »
Rob, you probably know Rahner better than I do, but I’m not sure Rahner would disagree with anything in that paragraph (or the document) you cite. Could you spell it out? When I took a course on Rahner with the eminent Lutheran theologian Robert Jenson, I got the impression that . . . . Continue Reading »
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a doctrinal note on evangelization. Here’s a sample: Although non-Christians can be saved through the grace which God bestows in “ways known to him”, the Church cannot fail to recognize that such persons are lacking a . . . . Continue Reading »
Brave New Britain is showing us the future of eugenic procreation unless we are very careful, the perceived right to only have children who pass health—and eventually attribute—muster. Where once pre-implatation genetic diagnosis was reserved to prevent babies from being born with . . . . Continue Reading »
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