In his critical appreciation of the recently departed theologian John Stott, Carl Trueman includes this delightfully apt digression : Death is, of course, the great atonement. I have commented before on how you only have to die these days in order to have all of your sins, both great and . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter was fishing for my responses on Christianity and its relation to modernity’s three stages in America AND on whether or not America is more oligarchic than democratic according to Plato’s sense of the terms. Well, that first topic is huge, but even as I focus upon the second one . . . . Continue Reading »
“Foes of gay rights are now seen by the press as fighting the bad war, roughly analogous to Vietnam,” wrote Fred Barnes in The Weekly Standard . “Pro-lifers are waging the good war, like World War II.” Timothy Dalrymple has an excellent post examining this analogy and shares . . . . Continue Reading »
Gingrich is surging in the polls and, with Cain’s new issue and possible withdrawal,, Gingrich stands to gain even more in the short-term, but I still don’t expect it to last. The problem of stopping Gingrich is insistent, but it is insistent for the right-of-Romney candidates not . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are the latest. Newt now has a huge lead in Iowa and South Carolina, and is within spitting distance in New Hampshire (the victory in Iowa would give him the big mo’ required actually to spit, it would seem). So nobody has voted yet, but the question of stopping Newt is really insistent . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Stanley Carlson-Thies writes in his invaluable newsletter (subscribe here) that many (including some of us ) have unfortunately followed our newspapers in misstating the scope of the opposition to the contraceptive mandate. Here’s what the (Protestant) Council for Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember when the U.S. aided the establishment of a theocracy in Afghanistan ? Here is what we helped to create : Lawyers in Afghanistan recently came to the conclusion that the best way to strike a plea bargain for a rape victim is to grant her the option to marry the man who raped her. This . . . . Continue Reading »
So, which is it? Is ” mainstream bioethics” a “come let us reason together” learned discourse in which respected colleagues explore differing views and ethical outlooks, as some in the movement suggest? Or, is it actually, as I opined in Culture of Death: The . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Howard Kainz notes that some atheist philosophers of science have joined with Intelligent Design theorists in the criticizing neo-Darwinism : Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, in What Darwin Got Wrong come at neo-Darwinism from a . . . . Continue Reading »
I just came across this fascinating article by a Christian engineer, Jace Yarbrough, about “why we don’t have more engineers.” The shortage of good engineers has been the subject of intense effort for decades, yet the supply has stubbornly refused to increase. In addition to . . . . Continue Reading »
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