Matthew Block, editor of the Canadian Lutheran, makes good use of classic literature to demonstrate how despair is countered by the promises of God: In the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, a spiritual epidemic spread across England, infecting Christians with the belief that God would
More mind-blowing discoveries from quantum physics: In the quantum optical laboratories at the Niels Bohr Institute, researchers have conducted experiments that show that light breaks with the classical physical principles. The studies show that light can have both an electrical and a magnetic field, but
President Obama, not by Congressional lawmaking but by executive order, announced that illegal aliens whose parents brought them here would no longer face deportation: The Obama administration announced Friday it will stop deporting illegal immigrants who come to the country at a young age. .
The National Association of Evangelicals has developed a Code of Ethics for pastors. It’s not all that long. Do you think this is needed? Is it adequate? Can you think of anything else that should be included? (I’d especially like to hear reactions to this
Medical researchers have developed a non-invasive test that can potentially identify not just Downs but thousands of other genetic disorders. That could mean thousands of other excuses for abortions. And thousands of reasons for a government-run health care system to–someday–require them. A team has been
Scientists have determined that neutrinos do not travel faster than the speed of light after all. Last year, as we posted here and discussed here, an experiment indicated that they did, which would upend much of modern physics. But apparently a timing device was malfunctioning.
Robert Schuller’s Chrystal Cathedral has been bought by the Roman Catholic Church, which has renamed it the Christ Cathedral. It will become the cathedral for the Orange County Diocese. The soaring glass-paneled church known to millions of television viewers around the world as the Crystal
Good stuff from the Book of Maccabees, as applied by John Garvey, president of Catholic University on why he is suing the federal government over the Obamacare contraceptive/abortifacient mandate: A wonderful story in the second book of Maccabees describes the martyrdom of the old scribe
So says Richard Leakey, scion of the famed fossil-finding family. From the Washington Post: Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history. Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself. Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects
Terry Mattingly points to a shift in language and of thinking that could be devastating to religious liberty: With the sounds of protests echoing across the campus, President Barack Obama knew his 2009 commencement address at the University of Notre Dame would have to mention
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