Wheaton provost Stanton L. Jones corrects an article in the New York Times and cites evidence that homosexuality is not genetic after all: Identical twins, who have exactly the same genes, are not very likely (contrary to some reports) to both be gay. Frank Bruni,
An appeals court ruled in favor of that graduate student who was expelled from her program in counseling because she could not approve of homosexuality due to her Christian beliefs. A counseling student who declined to advise a gay client might have been expelled from
Peter Wehner takes up the charge that the conservatives who oppose Newt Gingrich are “establishment” figures who oppose the kind of fundamental change that Gingrich would bring. If you’re for Gingrich, so goes this story line, you’re for “genuine” and “fundamental” change. If you oppose
Who are those 1% of the wealthiest Americans who allegedly are oppressing the rest of us? From Robert Samuelson: In a study, economists Jon Bakija, Bradley Heim and Adam Cole break down the top 1 percent as follows: executives in nonfinancial companies, 30 percent; doctors,
Civilian society is not supposed to be like the military, though making it that way is the leftist’s dream. So says George Will: Obama, an unfettered executive wielding a swollen state, began and ended his [State of the Union] address by celebrating the armed forces.
Back when Barack Obama was first running for president, I was among those worried about his community organizing ties to the Marxist activist Saul Alinsky. I admit that Obama has not set up a dictatorship of the proletariat, though this quotation from Alinsky does sort
More ways to lie with statistics. From an article by Christina Hoff Sommers: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released a study suggesting that rates of sexual violence in the United States are comparable to those in the war-stricken Congo. How is that
Sunday the Gospel reading was Mark 1:21-28 on Jesus casting out an unclean spirit. Here is what Pastor Douthwaite did with that text: Now, several things strike me about this account so far. First, it seems as if no one knew there was a man
Should Christians employ acupuncture, yoga, and other “alternative medicine” treatments whose theoretical foundations come out of Eastern or New Age religions? All of those energy meridians, chakras, and the like are far removed from a Christian worldview, much less the worldview of modern science. And
One of the Republican candidate’s favorite whipping boys is Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve. They have been accusing him of employing monetary policies that produce inflation. But it turns out, inflation rates continue to be low: Bernanke didn’t need to rebut his critics;
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