The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...
In normal times, an institution like Harvard University thrives on publicity. Then again, these are not normal times. Harvard may be the most elite br...
Can a revolution come down to a pill? Over the past century, tidal waves of moral revolution have transformed society and reshaped our moral landscape...
Pope Francis, considered by Roman Catholic dogma to be Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Patriarch of the West, Bishop of Rome...
Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center took a look at the recent "Teen Choice Awards" program featured on Fox. The winners were chosen by teenagers via a poll organized by Teen People magazine. Bozell reports: "In between the incessant screaming o ...
The New York Times is out again with (yet another) major article on the controversy over evolutionary theory and Intelligent Design. Today's article, "In Explaining Life's Complexity, Darwinists and Doubters Clash," by Kenneth Chang, sets this issue ...
For the first time, scientists now claim to have transformed ordinary human skin cells into cells equal in "totipotentiality" to embryonic stem cells. The report is published in today's edition of The Washington Post and the full research report is t ...
The Sydney Morning Herald [Australia] reports that "virtual adultery" is a new threat to marriages. Until recently, adultery has been a sin of the flesh. Temptation arrives, chemistry sizzles and before long the unfaithful spouse is spending stolen ...
The Chicago Tribune today features a massive article devoted to the great question: Are Oreos addictive? Here's how the article begins: "Churned out in ovens the size of football fields, the Oreo reigns as the best-selling cookie in the world and a ...
The reporters and editors of The New York Times evidently have evolution on the mind. Today's on-line edition of the paper includes at least three articles dealing with evolution in one way or the other. All this attention indicates the anxiety of ev ...
Rev. Michael G. Clark is a deeply committed man. I know this because The New York Times reports that he was at the sentencing hearing yesterday for Dennis L. Rader, the infamous B.T.K. killer in Wichita, Kansas. Rader, now one of the nation's most no ...
The Washington Post and The New York Times are out today with truly frightening reports. Headlined, "Fetal Tissue Heals Burns," The Washington Post article reports: An experimental therapy that uses skin cells grown from an aborted fetus successfully ...
I had to hear this one for myself. Presiding Bishop Mark Hansen of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America has called for an ecumenical council to convene in order to resolve the question of biblical interpretation in the church. Calling for the g ...
I was invited to particpate in National Public Radio's "Taking Issue" forum on "Evolution and Religious Faith." Here's how NPR introduced the series: At its extremes, the current debate over teaching Darwin's theory of evolution pits science against ...