Now that gays have won the right to marry, the tune is changing. Instead of the view that homosexuality is a fixed, permanent, non-alterable state, the word now, including among gays, is that sexual preference is “fluid” and exists along a continuum. Kinsey’s scale, ranking
Charles Krauthammer raises a striking point in his discussion of the Planned Parenthood videos: Abortion critics have long warned that the problem is not only the obvious — what abortion does to the fetus — but also what it does to us. (more…)
“You do not become a ‘dissident’ just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances….It begins as an attempt to do your
Donald Trump is leading big in New Hampshire, Iowa, and South Carolina. If he wins those early primaries, what’s to stop him? Meanwhile, the Democrats’ outlier, avowed socialist Bernie Sanders, has passed Hillary Clinton in the New Hampshire polls and is attracting huge crowds wherever
The estimable David Mills takes a break from writing about Planned Parenthood, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and other major issues to discuss something just because it’s cool: What it was like for knights to fight in armor. I’d always thought that the soldiers in armor
Pastor Douthwaite’s sermon last Sunday was based on the reading from John 6, in which Jesus continues his discourse about how He is the Bread of Life. I was struck by the way the sermon showed how Jesus is undoing the Fall and restoring us
A new video from the Center for Medical Progress, part of a documentary the group is making, features a biotech technician who tells of the aggressive approach used by Planned Parenthood in acquiring fetal organs to sell. This included pressuring mothers to sign over the
Research shows that whether favorable or unfavorable articles show up on search engines–and the order of those articles–influences the way people vote. So, conceivably, Google–or, rather, the search algorithm that Google uses–could determine the election. So warns Wired Magazine. (more…)
We keep hearing that today’s church needs to change; that is to say, it needs reformation. What will it take to reform the church? The Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, credited or blamed for inventing existentialism, took up this same question. First of all, he said,
Heroin used to be a plague in the big cities, but today heroin addiction is rampant in the small towns of America’s heartland. Rod Dreher reviews what sounds like an important book, Sam Quinones, Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic. It is a
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