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Appearance on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees” Last Night — Controversy Over Childlessness

I appeared last night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 360 Degrees to talk about the controversy over chosen childlessness as a lifestyle. Anderson Cooper anchored the show from Baghdad while Heidi Collins served as interviewer for the segment on childlessne ...

December 16, 2005

MSNBC Takes a Look at the “Dark Side of Faith” Report

Alex Johnson of MSNBC takes a look at the controversy over Gregory Paul's article and its aftermath [See my previous articles on this controversy here and here.] In his article, published Thursday, Johnson traces the debate. In short, the controvers ...

December 16, 2005

What’s Going on in Iraq? An Election Day of Hope

Iraqi voters began heading for the polls this morning as the nation's first nationwide election for a non-provisional government began. As The New York Times reports, The elections, which are expected to draw as many as 10 million Iraqis to the polls ...

December 15, 2005

What’s Going on in Iran? A Growing Threat to World Peace

What is going on in Iran? The country's ultra-Islamist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has set off round after round of world-wide concern with his threatening statements, even as international concern builds over Iran's development of nuclear techno ...

December 15, 2005

When Will They Ever Learn? Mainline Decline in Perspective

The Episcopal Diocese of Newark, New Jersey has the distinction of once having been led by none other than Bishop John Shelby Spong, who has managed to push heresy into the twilight zone by suggesting that the church must move even beyond theism. Not ...

December 14, 2005

Richard Dawkins — God is an Imaginary Friend

Richard Dawkins, the British biologist whose militant atheism is integral to his worldview of scientism, gave an interview to Beliefnet.com while at the World Congress of Secular Humanism. Some choice excerpts: When people say that the idea of God i ...

December 14, 2005

The Truth About Women and Abortion — Lasting Trauma

Guilt, distress, and mental trauma among women who have experienced an abortion are far more common and long-lasting than abortion rights proponents have claimed. Researchers with the Norwegian Council for Mental Health and the University of Oslo eva ...

December 13, 2005

The Surrogate’s Song — A Sign of Our Confused Times

Writing in the December 11, 2005 edition of the New York Times, Lisa Baker describes her experience as a surrogate mother. Her self-portait as a surrogate should serve as a warning of what happens when reproduction is severed from marriage and the pr ...

December 12, 2005

Separation of Sex and State?

Carol Platt Liebau thinks that if "religious" messages are to be censored in public because they offend secularists, then sexual messages should be curtailed as well. Writing in the Sunday edition of the Los Angeles Times, she argues that enough is e ...

December 12, 2005

Why December 25? Don’t Believe What You’ve Heard

Gene Edward Veith, World Magazine's indispensable culture editor, sets the record straight on December 25 in the magazine's December 10 issue. According to conventional wisdom, Christmas had its origin in a pagan winter solstice festival, which the ...

December 12, 2005