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Mapping America by Religious Identification — A Fascinating Set of Maps

The Glenmary Research Center has produced "county-level choropleth maps" of America, marking religious identification. These are fascinating to review. The map of all religious adherents indicates that the east and west coasts are more secularized ...

April 26, 2006

The Importance of Worldview

Why do people act and think as they do? That is one of the great questions of human nature, of course. But, even as we theologians are ready to offer an answer, the political scientisists, sociologists, psychiatrists, and the like are also invested i ...

April 26, 2006

“A Retreat Into Militant Orthodoxy?”

The Guardian [London] is one of the most liberal of Britain's major daily newspapers, and it is often one of the most interesting. On Good Friday, the paper unleashed an attack upon orthodox believers that breaks new ground in secular intolerance dis ...

April 24, 2006

How Very Open-Minded

Named for William Ellery Channing, the Channing Memorial Church in Newport, Rhode Island is one of the historic congregations of Unitarian Universalism. The church is the epitome of liberal theology and church practice. Here is a statement from the c ...

April 24, 2006

‘A Masterpiece of Collecting’ — Christie’s Auctions Porn

This story from a British newspaper caught my eye. It seems that one of the world's most notable and extensive collections of pornography (styled as "erotic art") is going on the auction block in Paris. Here's the gist of the story from The Telegraph ...

April 24, 2006

Indoctrination in the Public Schools — Another Warning From Massachusetts

Just last year, parent David Parker was arrested for trespassing at the Estabrook Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts. Mr. Parker had demanded that school officials allow him to "opt out" his son from lessons on sexual diversity. His son ha ...

April 21, 2006

Pushing the Abortion Agenda — In the Medical Schools

"Even other doctors call us the baby killers," says Dr. Christopher Estes of Columbia University's medical school. Dr. Estes insists that these other doctors are speaking "tongue-in-cheek," but the fact is that many medical students resist any traini ...

April 21, 2006

Does it Matter if the Cowboys Are Sleeping Together? Adventures in Missing the Point

The New Republic returns to the issue of Brokeback Mountain in an essay by Christopher Orr on "Masculinity and Brokeback Mountain." Orr argues that the furor over the movie has to do with the fact that our current cultural context no longer allows tw ...

April 20, 2006

Deeply Divided Over Abortion? USA Today Maps a Post-Roe America

What would happen if Roe v. Wade were reversed? That question interests both sides in this nation's abortion debate, and no one can know just how each state would respond -- but some states have already signaled their intentions. According to a fron ...

April 20, 2006

The Moral Responsibility of Civilization

The very existence of civilization -- an achievement under the best of circumstances -- is undermined by moral collapse. A haunting reminder of this now comes in the reponse of Hamas to yesterday's suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. The bombing killed nine ...

April 19, 2006