Recently, the FDA approved the “morning-after pill,” a contraceptive taken after sex, for sale without a prescription to females over 15 years old. That created a furor from those who wanted it available to girls even younger. The government has given up the fight, so
Most of the discussion on this blog about the government’s program to monitor phone calls and the internet has been against it. But some pundits, politicians, and security experts are defending the surveillance. After the jump, I have excerpts from two journalists who defend the
Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former CIA employee who has been working with an intelligence contractor, revealed himself to be the source of reports about the government’s mass monitoring of telephones and the internet. After the jump, read about the cloak-and-dagger details from the perspective of
Thanks to Prof. Scott Ashmon of Concordia University Irvine for alerting me to this quotation from Philip Melanchthon: “What is beautiful may be difficult.” (“On Correcting the Studies of Youth” in A Melanchthon Reader, ed. Ralph Keen [New York: Peter Lang, 1988], 54, 56.) Where
In another contribution to the “Why can’t there be Lutheran Baptists” discussion, Christopher Jackson, a Lutheran attending grad school at the Southern Baptists Theological Seminary, a haven for for Calvinist baptists, weighs in. He says there are indeed Lutheran influences at SBTS, as well
Roman Catholics have been launching a major world-wide evangelism effort. It includes “witnessing,” knocking on doors, and sharing what Jesus has done in my life. They are adopting techniques associated with evangelicals. Do you think Catholics might have some advantages in the competition for the
The Church of England has been opposing gay marriage, but votes in Parliament demonstrate that they can’t stop it. So the state church is dropping its attempts to kill the gay marriage bill and is concentrating instead on improving it; that is, making gay marriage
As we posted about last week, the federal government has been secretly monitoring millions of phone calls. Now it has been learned that the feds are also secretly monitoring massive amounts of internet activity by tapping into servers of internet companies. (more…)
The worst criminals tend to be very religious. In fact, they often use religion to rationalize their misdeeds. Of course, in doing so, their theology is horrendous. Nicholas C. DiDonato reports on some research that studied How criminals use religion to justify their crimes. Details
The federal government has been monitoring the phone calls of some 10 million Verizon subscribers (nearly 10% of them), thanks to a secret court order that initiated what is being called the largest and most open-ended surveillance effort ever and a grave assault on civil
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