French economist Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize for Economics for showing the inter-relationship between markets and government regulations. According to Matt O’Brien’s explanation, government regulation of company’s “excess profits” is assumed to be a good thing. (more…)
Annise Parker, the openly gay mayor of Houston, is cracking down on churches that are opposing “HERO,” the latest city ordinance that forbids discrimination against homosexuals. She has issued subpoenas of pastors’ sermons to see if they are preaching against the bill, which could be
A second nurse in Dallas who took care of Thomas Duncan, who died of the disease, has been diagnosed with Ebola. A further problem is that she was on a flight from Cleveland the day before she was admitted to the hospital, exposing 132 passengers.
The Kansas City Royals, which taught me to love baseball long ago, have hit the fewest home runs in the major leagues, relying on speed, defense, and pitching. But they swept the mighty Orioles, after also sweeping the mighty Angels. And now they are in
The New Testament reading for last Sunday was the parable about the king’s invitations to the marriage feast–those who turned them down and those who were brought in off the streets (Matthew 22:1-14). You’ve got to see what our pastor did with this. (more…)
More from the first working document from the Catholic synod on the family: The Church should “appreciate the positive values” that can be found in gay unions and with couples living together out of wedlock. Traditional marriage, it says, is “ideal,” but the synod is
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
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