China may be reconsidering its one-child policy, with its forced abortions and vast array of unintended consequences. William Wan writes in the Washington Post about the impact of the policy on parents whose one child has died. (more…)
China may be reconsidering its one-child policy, with its forced abortions and vast array of unintended consequences. William Wan writes in the Washington Post about the impact of the policy on parents whose one child has died. (more…)
Trying to be “contemporary,” as in contemporary worship, requires hitting a moving target, since, by definition, what is up to the minute changes every minute. This is especially true when it comes to pop culture, which depends for its commercial success on spinning out fashions
I like to read newspapers. Those big floppy papery things.* (*Who can catch that allusion?) I am aware, though, that fewer and fewer people share my affection. Among the young adults I know, including those who are very interested in current events, hardly any of
One pro-life strategy on the state level is to require abortion clinics to meet the standards of legitimate medical facilities and to require abortionists to have admitting privileges in area hospitals. This exposes the medically shoddy standards of the abortion industry, forcing many abortuaries out
What are we to make of “radical orthodoxy”? This isn’t people who are orthodox getting all radical about it, as in some sort of theological Tea Party. It’s a distinct theological movement, as I understand it, that uses postmodern philosophy to shoot down theological liberalism,
Critics of Obamacare have said that it is just a first step towards a single-payer system. That is, the government provides everyone’s health care as in the socialized medicine of Great Britain and Canada. Now Senate majority leader Harry Reid is admitting that this is,
Nervous Washington Post employees are wondering what life will be like under their new boss, Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com. So some of the newspaper’s reporters did a bit of investigative journalism on what Bezos is like to work for. The article is worth reading for
Consider this quote from Timothy George, in our recent Christianity without the Atonement post: The problem comes when we use an anthropopathic term like “wrath” and apply it univocally to the God of eternity. Before long, we have constructed “a god who looks like me,” to
Major league baseball suspended 13 players, including superstar Alex Rodriguez and three All Stars, for using performance-enhancing drugs. Sportswriter Julian Linden worries that this may be the tip of the iceberg, not only in baseball but also in other sports. This is because none of
I told you about the Tulsa mini-renaissance of my college days in the 1970s, mentioning specifically the Uncanny Film Festival and Camp Meeting, the late night bad-movie and skit-comedy festival featuring Mazeppa Pompazoidi (Gailard Sartain) and Teddy Jack Eddy (Gary Busey). Well, hat tip to
Ad-Free & Subscriber Log-In