After the jump, a complete list of the 2014 Nobel Prize winners. Which do you find especially significant? (more…)
After the jump, a complete list of the 2014 Nobel Prize winners. Which do you find especially significant? (more…)
The first document from the Catholic synod on the family–which is considering divorce, cohabitation, homosexuality, etc.–says that the church should tone down its application of doctrine, advocates “gradualism” in salvation, affirms that sanctification can take place apart from the church and its sacraments, says that
A Dallas nurse who cared for Ebola victim Thomas Duncan, who died of the affliction, has been diagnosed as having the disease. And yet she was wearing full protective gear. Doctors are insisting that she must have violated the protocols somehow, though they can’t say
There is currently what is being described as a “crisis” in the field of social/personality psychology. It turns out, many psychological experiments, however heralded in the media and whose findings are made a big deal of, cannot be replicated by other researchers. Is that due
In church, when you seem people staring at their smart phones, they aren’t necessarily texting, surfing, or playing games. They may well be using their Bible apps, allowing them to read the Scriptures and follow along with the text of a sermon on their mobile
A British newspaper reports that American efforts to stop ISIL are failing, as ISIL continues to win victory after victory against the Iraqi army and Kurdish rivals in Syria. The airstrikes are just not working. Even with American air support, the Iraqi army keeps running
Seventeen-year-old Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan won the Nobel Peace Prize. When she was 15, she was shot in the head by the Taliban for saying that girls should be allowed to go to school. She recovered and responded by launching a world-wide movement to
Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses the doom and gloom many Christians feel about the church’s prospects in contemporary culture. He disagrees that things are that bad and says that there are two ways the church grows: by biology and by “attraction, not argument.” He goes on
The ice caps are supposed to be melting. But the ice in Antarctica is at record levels. And the ice at the North Pole, after declining for awhile, is back to normal levels. So reports a British newspaper, the Register. I’m struck, though, by a
Terrorism, the shaky economy, and now ebola–these things make us feel insecure. Chris Cillizza says that other items in the news–the Secret Service failures, the controversy over the Ferguson police, the rise of ISIL in Iraq despite our military’s prowess–adds a further level of insecurity,
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