[Note: This post originally appeared on the blog in 2009.] I’m a sucker for movies, lists, and religious discussions. So when Arts & Faith started compiling lists of Top 100 Spiritually Significant Films in 2004, my interest was naturally piqued. (They’ve put the list out a few other . . . . Continue Reading »
The UK’s rationing board NICE will soon be defanged, but its teeth still remain sharp. The current victims, leukemia patient’s whose lives could be saved by a drug the rationers have deemed not cost/benefit worthy. From the Telegraph story: Leukaemia sufferers in England have been . . . . Continue Reading »
Christians, and Christian societies, honour dead bodies, because Jesus Christ, God in the flesh, had one. We do not abuse the dead.We do not kick corpses.Traditional Christians do not encourage cremation.President Obama made the right call to take out bin Laden, the right call to end torture of . . . . Continue Reading »
A great photo essay on military dogs . You couldn’t do this with cats. A cat would defect to the Taliban if they made a better offer. “Is that warm milk, Mr. bin Laden? For me ? Oh, you shouldn’t have! Oh, yeah, the soldiers are behind the tree over there.” Real . . . . Continue Reading »
It is interesting how technology has the power to create false intimacy. I have more than 700 friends on Facebook! I Tweet with the best of them. And now, a Japanese scientist is creating a machine that one day may allow people to “French kiss” over the Internet. . . . . Continue Reading »
Does promoting limited government require abandoning a commitment to the poor? Ryan Messmore, whose answer is a firm “no” , argues that non-government institutions can provide personalized assistance to help individuals fix relational problems, overcome poverty and lead healthy lives: . . . . Continue Reading »
Scientific American has a piece out trying to explain why people “don’t trust scientists.” I think the very topic illustrates part of the problem. Hubris. Those in the Politicized Science community—and Scientific American is part of that . . . . Continue Reading »
John McCormack of The Weekly Standard reports : The House of Representatives voted today on the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act,” which bans direct federal funding of elective abortions and federal funding of insurance policies that cover elective abortions, such as policies that . . . . Continue Reading »
David Bentley Hart explains why the “irrelevance” of John Paul’s theology of the body is truly relevant (in another sense) to contemporary bioethics: No serious consideration of the life and work of John Paul II can ignore his Theology of the Body, or avoid asking what relevance . . . . Continue Reading »
In an article on the decline of the Church of England, Albert Mohler notes that when a church forfeits its doctrinal convictions and then embraces ambiguity and tolerates heresy, it undermines its own credibility and embraces its own destruction: The formality of state occasions may provide drama . . . . Continue Reading »
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