I have noticed an odd propensity among the generally politically liberal commenters and bloggers on stem cell research. Where some rail against the supposed greed and avarice of the pharmaceutical companies, they praise stem cell researchers to the hilt as altruistic scientific saviors. I never got . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Leithart clears up some of the confusion about what the doctrine of sola Scriptura really means : Now, I imagine that there are people who believe sola Scriptura as Smith describes it, and Protestants have always insisted that Scripture is a sufficient revelation of God’s will for us . . . . Continue Reading »
Talk of Paul Ryan maybe running for President seems to be all over Fox News today. Here are my thoughts: Con: 1. Ryan’s original Roadmap proposal has huge political problems on the taxation side. He seems to have proposed a middle-class tax increase with sharp tax cuts for . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . the rock and roll apparatus affectively organizes the everyday life of its fans by differentially cathecting the various fragments it “excorporates” along these three axes. . . . It involves vectors (quantities having both magnitude and direction) that are removed from the hegemonic . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Book of Judges, after the warriors of Gilead defeated the tribe of Ephraim, the surviving Ephraimites tried to cross the Jordan River back into their home territory. The Gileadites attempted to cut them off from the fords of the Jordan and needed a a way to determine if a person was an . . . . Continue Reading »
In response to the lead paragraph of my A Great and Glorious, But Debated, Assumption , an Eastern Catholic friend wrote of those Churches’ “refusal to bend to worldly reality”: Today is a “day of obligation” (we would prefer to say “day of precept”) for . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m goin’ out to places I have never been and seein’ things I may never see again. So, blogging will slow, as I am traveling light and keeping the trusty old laptop in the barn. However, I will be taking my neat new Blackberry Playbook. That will permit me to monitor comments and . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s more authentically SOUTHERN than most movies about the South during the Civil Rights era. So it has lot more real to. say about race, class, and gender . . . . Continue Reading »
I first realized the Canadian single payer system had terrible problems whilst in Toronto maybe 10 years ago, and seeing a front page headline that 900,000 Ontarians could not find their own primary care physician. That stunned me. Prior to then, I had urged that the USA adopt the . . . . Continue Reading »
Stephan Prothero writes a piece for CNN, asking whether or not Catholics can “abide a saint who had an abortion”? Speaking here of Servant of God Dorothy Day, who had an abortion as a young woman but went on to become one of the most prominent converted Catholics of the 20 th . . . . Continue Reading »
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