A commission is recommending to Congress that churches and other 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations be allowed to endorse political candidates without losing their tax-extemptions. Here is the report. Details after the jump. I decry the politicization of churches. And yet I also decry the federal government
Retiring baby-boomers are increasingly moving away from their houses in the suburbs to condos in the city. This makes sense. Single and just-married adults living in small apartments when just starting out, then moving to larger homes, more space, and better schools in the suburbs
Just what school children need: more internet! President Obama has a new signature program in the works. “ConnectEd” will provide high-speed internet access to schools, with its multi-billion dollar cost funded by new fees on cell phones. And the beauty of it, according to the
Christians have their different theologies. Conservatism comprises a number of different ideologies. Now studies are showing that there are different kinds of atheists. Sociologist George Yancey discusses recent research that classifies atheists into six different types. (more…)
Remember Stewart Lundy, my former student who helped me with the technical side of my blog? He has now embraced farming. But what a farm! He is doing cutting-edge local, sustainable, organic farming. He is raising heirloom vegetables, chickens, ducks, rabbits, bees, and “rare pigs.”
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,
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