President Biden’s unpardonable pardon

President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...

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“A Rather Unexpected Aspect of IVF” — Over a Million Human Embryos Destroyed in Britain

The development of In Vitro Fertilization technologies [IVF] has produced what one key observer has called "a rather unexpected aspect" of the technique -- the destruction of well over a million human embryos in Great Britain alone. As reported in T ...

January 10, 2008

“We Had Abortions . . . . I’ve Had Abortions” — A New Voice in the Abortion Debate

A new voice is emerging in the abortion debate, and this voice is a powerful witness to the tragedy of killing the unborn. This voice is the voice of the fathers of abortion. "We had abortions. . . . I've had abortions," says Mark B. Morrow, a Chris ...

January 8, 2008

The Twilight of the Books?

Years ago, Walter Ong argued that our civilization is returning to a condition of "orality" in which the text gives way to the tongue. Specifically, Ong argued that this condition is actually a form of "secondary orality" since the culture had once b ...

January 7, 2008

The Caucus, the Candidates, and the Dance of Democracy

The dance of democracy is rarely graceful and almost never predictable. But, in the end, the people have their say. The 2008 U.S. presidential contest started earlier than any other in the nation's history, but the first real votes were taken last ni ...

January 4, 2008

Life in the Cellular Age

Scientists around the world are noting a change in the human body. The average human being now has a more powerful and accurate thumb. Why? As Edward Tenner, author of Our Own Devices: How Technology Remakes Humanity, explains, this phenomenon can be ...

January 3, 2008

Two Perspectives on the Bible and Contemporary Issues

This week, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS has featured two different perspectives on the Bible and its relevance to contemporary issues. On Tuesday, Ray Suarez interviewed Dr. Peter Gomes, Minister of the Harvard Memorial Church and Plummer Pro ...

December 28, 2007

On Discussing Doctrine in Public

We must first express a bit of sympathetic understanding for the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams. As the spiritual head of the Church of England -- a state church, after all -- and as head of the Anglican Communion, he is in the awkward posi ...

December 27, 2007

“If This Were Not the Case, We Would Not Be Saved”

From Martin Luther: In our Christian Creed we confess that Christ was conceived and made man or was incarnate (if I may so speak), that He became a real human being by assuming a body. We confess that He assumed genuine flesh and blood from the Vir ...

December 24, 2007

Some Thoughts about The Kite Runner

The film version of The Kite Runner, now showing in theaters nationwide, is attracting considerable attention. Given the blockbuster sales of Khaled Hosseini's novel of the same title, that attention was quite predictable. As a novel, The Kite Runne ...

December 19, 2007

My Daddy’s Name is Donor?

The t-shirt on the toddler is meant to be an attention-getter . . . and it is. A picture of the boy wearing the t-shirt appeared first in the Chicago Tribune but now also in The Times [London]. The t-shirt reads, "My daddy's name is Donor." As Cathe ...

December 17, 2007