As reported most recently in the New York Times , a small number of advocates are putting some of the nation’s largest retailers, including Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Wal-Mart, on the spot for their indirect funneling of money to Christian non-profits that denounce homosexual practice and . . . . Continue Reading »
Fearing Change, Many Christians in Syria Back Assad New York Times Billy Graham’s Book Is a Fearless Look at Growing Old USA Today , Cathy Lynn Grossman Rights Collide as Town Clerk Sidesteps Role in Gay Marriages New York Times , Thomas Kaplan Patriotism and the ‘God gap’ CNN , . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers may want to put on their radar a volume (really an extended bibliography) that attempts to catalogue the complete written works of Avery Cardinal Dulles, SJ. Titled The Legacy of Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.: His Words and His Witness , the compendium has recently been released by Fordham . . . . Continue Reading »
This is hilarious. After every noteworthy weather event, MSM types such as the NYT and Time, scream, IT’S GLOBAL WARMING CLIMATE CHAGE, WE’RE ALL GOING TO DIE!. People who get the most attention in the world, such as Al Gore, Prince Charles, Thomas Friedman, Bill Clinton, . . . . Continue Reading »
Doctors in San Francisco are refusing to intervene in a suicide by starvation by an suspected murderer—even though he has been declared mentally incompetent. From the “Matier and Ross” feature in the SF Chronicle:Doctors at San Francisco General Hospital are refusing to . . . . Continue Reading »
Communion in both kinds (host and cup) is a staple of the Lutheran reform of the Mass. Somewhere around article twenty-two in the Augsburg Confession of 1530 you’ll find this: Among us both kinds of the sacrament are given to the laity for the following reason. There is clear order and command . . . . Continue Reading »
Baby Joseph, who was the subject of a bitter futile care theory lawsuit that involved two elements: First, Canadian doctors and hospital administration wanting to end all life-sustaining treatment for the terminally ill boy so he would die. But they also refused a tracheotomy as medically . . . . Continue Reading »
As Wesley Smith notes below , Iranian Christian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani has refused to recant his faith. Absent any new action on the part of the Iranian regime, this paves the way for death by hanging . I’ve recently raised questions about the Obama Administration’s . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Joe Carter explains the importance of thinking morally about reproductive technologies: From the time of Adam and Eve until the late 1970s, there was—with one notable exception—only one way to make a baby: the sexual bonding of a man and a woman. That . . . . Continue Reading »
More conflict over expressions of faith in the (literal) public square, this time from a less-expected angle: a Jewish group’s recent plans to erect a sukkah in a public park in the TriBeCa neighborhood of Manhattan has generated opposition from the local community board. The traditional . . . . Continue Reading »
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