The porn industry is earning higher profits than the NFL, NBA, and MLB combined, and features as one of the most prevalent addictions in America, with 372 million pornographic web pages existent, 72 million visitors each year, and sex being the number one topic sought in search engines. In a . . . . Continue Reading »
Fifty years ago, the Hippocratic Oath’s proscriptions on medicalized killing were generally accepted within the medical professions and society generally. Today, practioners of what used to be called the “healing arts” sometimes take part in killing (ending life) in . . . . Continue Reading »
The Costs of Taking Conscience Public Discourse , Michael Fragoso Same-Sex Couples Have No Right to Marry ABC Religion and Ethics , David Novak Read Schuchardt on Media, Tech, and Religion Christian Leadership Center , Interview by Leroy Huizenga 100 Men Standing against Portland’s Gangs . . . . Continue Reading »
Since today is World AIDS Day, I thought it’d be appropriate to dust off this provocative article from 2009 by theologian Russell Moore: Jesus has AIDS. Just reading that in the type in front of you probably has some of you angry. Let me help you see why that is, and, in so doing, why caring . . . . Continue Reading »
For this ad. I’m tired. Maybe some thoughts on Cain, Gingrich and Romney tomorrow. . . . . Continue Reading »
Reformed Christians often refer to Genesis 1:28 as the Cultural Mandate:And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”There . . . . Continue Reading »
As someone who has “flipped” from one position to another (left to right, atheist to Christian), I have some sympathy for Mitt Romney. (To be sure, I had little to gain in the academy from either flip.) But Kathleen Parker’s account of how Mitt Romney approached the . . . . Continue Reading »
At 3:00 p.m. EST, I will be on NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” program, along with Charles Blow of the New York Times, to discuss this report of the Pew Research Center suggesting that belief in American “exceptionalism” is subsiding. If you look at the full report . . . . Continue Reading »
By Robert Schwarzwalder and Julia Kiewit We recently published an On the Square article faulting some Evangelical Christian organizations for not objecting to the proposed federal “contraceptive mandate” that would force all health insurance plans to include abortifacient drugs. . . . . Continue Reading »
Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber is a hypocrite. He was governor when the state’s assisted suicide legalization law went into effect and he administered the law with gusto, repeatedly stating that his job was to carry out the people’s will by moving doctor-presribed death into . . . . Continue Reading »
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