Over the past decade, the ” fair trade ” movement has become increasingly popular, especially among Christians who seek market-based approaches to alleviating poverty. But does fair trade, which advocates the payment of a higher price to producers such as coffee farmers, actually work . . . . Continue Reading »
Lars Walker is a wonderful writer of fiction related to Vikings (and Christianity). He recently took up his pen, so to speak, to review the new Thor movie. These lines caught my attention:To anyone schooled in Norse mythology, the Odin of the movie is almost unrecognizable, except . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter’s column this week coins the term “X-Cons,” the conservative subset of Generation X which takes great pains to distinguish itself from the Baby Boomer mindset. Carter provides a compelling sketch of what to look for in an archetypical X-Con, including, among many other . . . . Continue Reading »
Oh good grief: In the wake of the Arnold, Edwards, Clinton, Spitzer, Ensign, Berlusconi, JFK, Strauss-Kahn, et. al. sexual scandals, Time has a piece blaming—and almost excusing—their hound dog ways on evolution. From “The Caligula Effect:”Human males have never been . . . . Continue Reading »
I wish I could say I was surprised. After decades of assertions that judgmentalism has no place in medicine, we have recently seen advocacy for a return of such judgmentalism aimed at a different cadre of patients—specifically, the obese and smokers—based on the greater likelihood of . . . . Continue Reading »
Trevin Wax thinks so. Wax finds five reasons to believe that we have reached a tipping point on the abortion issue: The pro-life cause is winning. In state legislatures, in the media, and in grassroots efforts to reduce the number of abortions, pro-life activists have put abortion rights advocates . . . . Continue Reading »
Adam Kirsch on a new book that “shows how Nazism and the Ku Klux Klan prompted the American establishment to look beyond longstanding divisions and see Catholics, Protestants, and Jews as kin”: When you consider how much blood has been spilled over questions of theology, there is . . . . Continue Reading »
A BIG IDEA explained by ME on BIG THINK . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher talks to Notre Dame sociologist Christian Smith about his new book What Is A Person? What is a person? And why does it matter how we answer that question? Every social science explanation has operating in the background some idea or other of what human persons are, what motivates them, . . . . Continue Reading »
So the Princeton conference was great. Carl was there for a day. I failed, though, in instructing him via BLACKBERRY on the science of linking. So Carl: Go to the Edit Post page. See the link link (in blue above). Click on it. Enter the url through pasting into the link thing that comes up. Click . . . . Continue Reading »
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