Virtually all living organisms sleep, or its equivalent. But it has been a puzzle why. Surely spending a big part of every day unconscious can’t have much survival value. But scientists have now discovered that sleep is when our bodies repair themselves and when our
Forty-five percent of Scots wanted to secede from Great Britain, and other secessionist movements are building up steam around the world (the Catalonians in Spain, the Flemish in Belgium, the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey, the Russians in the Ukraine, etc.). And according to a
A new “Left Behind” movie comes out today, this one with Nicholas Cage and big Hollywood studio connections. But, according to Christianity Today movie critic Jackson Cuidon, this story–supposedly, like the novels and earlier movies it is based on, about the Last Days according to
You might have thought that eugenics–the attempt to breed a master race by keeping inferior sorts from having children–perished with the Nazis. But no. . . . (more…)
After a thrilling 12-inning game that went back and forth all night, the Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland Athletics to win the American League wild-card slot. That’s the first time the Royals made it to the playoffs in 29 years. They were the first team
Some Protestants are calling for a “new monasticism,” the establishment of communities and religious orders devoted to prayer and the spiritual life. (more…)
My daughter has published a brilliant article in the Federalist! I am so proud. From Mary Moerbe, NPR Forced Me To Have The Talk With My Six-Year-Old: It crept up on me, but it was suddenly time to have the talk. I switched off the
Foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius draws attention to a book published in 2004 that reads like a playbook of radical jihadists. The Management of Savagery by Abu Bakr Naji calls for a strategy of drawing America into paralyzing wars and using shocking violence as a
We believe in freedom of religion, something that is becoming more and more important to Christians in light of the possibility of official suppression. Along with that comes the rights of non-Christian religions. Public governmental meetings are allowed to open with prayer, but that prayer
The German Ethics Council, an official government agency, is recommending that the law against incest between adult brothers and sisters be repealed. Furthermore, the ruling defined “sexual self-determination” as a “fundamental right.” See the reasoning after the jump. (more…)
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