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Monkey Business in the Classroom

Newsweek's magazine for college students, Current, features an interesting article, "Monkey Business," on the campus presence of students who do not accept evolution. It's worth a look. Writer Victoria Bosch, a senior at Penn State University, repo ...

January 3, 2006

Worldviews at Work — “Happy to Have Evolved”

With this posting, we begin a new feature for 2006 -- Worldviews at Work. These articles will draw attention to the impact of worldviews on the way people think about the issues of the day. We'll be looking for examples of what happens when people ac ...

January 2, 2006

The Korean Stem Cell Scandal — It Was All Faked

Reports coming our of Korea indicate that the entire research project headed by Dr. Woo-Suk Hwang was based on fakery and fraud. The Globe and Mail [Toronto] reports: An already disgraced scientist lied about all of the stem-cell lines he claimed w ...

December 30, 2005

The Tsunami, One Year Later

On December 26, 2004, entire regions of the Indian Ocean basin were devastated by giant waves of water, caused by an underwater earthquake in a volitile and active subduction zone. The world watched in horror as the scale of devastation became clea ...

December 29, 2005

Rodney Stark on Why There Are No Theologians in the East

Rodney Stark, whose newest book, The Victory of Reason, is excerpted in Sunday's edition of The New York Times, provides a brilliant analysis of the most basic difference between the East and the West on the question of theology: To fully appreciate ...

December 28, 2005

The Seducation of Pornography — The Los Angeles Times Reports

Monday's edition of The Los Angeles Times included another important report on the spread of internet pornography. Reporter Marianne Szegedy-Maszak cites industry sources and points to 200 new pornography sites on the Internet each day. In her arti ...

December 28, 2005

The Mystery of the Incarnation — A Witness

He, through whom time was made, was made in time; and He, older by eternity that the world itself, was younger in age than many of His servants in the world; He, who made man, was made man; He was given existence by a mother whom He brought into exis ...

December 24, 2005

Born of A Virgin? An Episcopal Priest Shares Her Doubts

Chloe Breyer serves an Episcopal priest at St. Mary's Manhattanville Church in West Harlem, New York. She is the daughter of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and author of The Close, a reflection on her first year at General Theological S ...

December 24, 2005

This Date in History — The Bicentennial of Joseph Smith’s Birth

December 23, 2005 marks 200 years since the birth of Joseph Smith. Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was born in Vermont, but was raised in the region of western New York known as the "Burned-Over District" because of the fierce religious debates tha ...

December 23, 2005

The Word Became Flesh and Asssumed the Status of a Zygote

Bioethicist Nigel M. de S. Cameron points to a significance of the incarnation that may be missed by many -- what he calls "the bioethics of Bethlehem." Cameron points back to the conception of Jesus in Mary by the Holy Spirit, and to the concrete r ...

December 23, 2005