. . . died yesterday. He was one of the greatest men of our time. Here’s a paragraph from his magnificient speech “Politics and Conscience” (1984): Or the question about socialism and capitalism! I have to admit that it gives me a sense of emerging from the depths of the last . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioethics has taken quite a ride since its inception circa the early 1970s. Where once I think the ambition was to influence public policy, medical ethics, and court rulings toward a certain generally agreed upon direction, the field is now so ethically polyglot and diverse that it seems . . . . Continue Reading »
The NIH has determined it will restrict—not eliminate—federal funding of medical research on chimpanzees. From the NYT story:The National Institutes of Health on Thursday suspended all new grants for biomedical and behavioral research on chimpanzees and accepted the first uniform . . . . Continue Reading »
Sorry I’m late getting to it, but work and family . . . 1. Gingrich’s response on Freddie Mac was weak. That thing about how he only worked with people who shared his values is begging to be made into an ad. Just the same, the other candidates left points on the floor . . . . Continue Reading »
500 years ago this Sunday, the Dominicans friars of the Spanish colony of Hispaniola called the Spanish colonists to repentance for their gross mistreatment of the native population. The stirring words of Antonio de Montesinos’ homily for Fourth Advent—-which shocked the unsuspecting . . . . Continue Reading »
Although I prefer America’s stricter model of religious freedom to England’s, which might be characterized as the civil theology equivalent of the ” strategic ambiguity ” approach in foreign affairs, I was moved by Prime Minister David Cameron’s articulation of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacarians told us that the more we learned about the law, the more it went into effect, the more popular it would be. Wrong. Rasumussen has consistently shown that about 55% of likely voters want it repealed. Now the AP Poll reports that the law’s popularity is also . . . . Continue Reading »
Albert Mohler on the importance of doctrine of the virgin birth : Must one believe in the Virgin Birth to be a Christian? This is not a hard question to answer. It is conceivable that someone might come to Christ and trust Christ as Savior without yet learning that the Bible teaches that Jesus was . . . . Continue Reading »
Our main purpose in looking at this song is to better judge “Eleanor Rigby,” which to some commenters’ chagrin, I criticized in the last Songbook entry. The first contrast is that it is a song that doesn’t grab you at first—in my experience, it takes about five or so . . . . Continue Reading »
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