In an article about sociologist Bradley Wright’s book Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites…and Other Lies You’ve Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media journalist Adelle M. Banks discusses his findings that Christians who go to church regularly have lower divorce rates,
Why are so many conservatives against the new war in Libya, liberals are asking, their assumption being that conservatives like war. Well, one thing that bothers those who believe in following the Constitution is that President Obama has gone to war at the behest of
After one problem after another, including labor troubles in New Zealand, the movie version of J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel The Hobbit has gotten underway. The film will be shown in two parts, beginning in late 2012. The prequel to The Lord of the Rings
Bradley Wright, a professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut, has published a book entitled Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites…and Other Lies You’ve Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the Secular and Christian Media This is the book that provides the research we blogged
There will now be a new domain name just for pornography: .xxx. However, pornography will still continue to populate the .coms and every other domain also. The big opponents: The porn industry, which knows that the creation of an internet red light district will mean
In the new words department: The disaster bureaucrats talk about black swans: calamities from out of the blue, terrible and strange. The world is now transfixed by the black swan disaster of Japan — an earthquake larger than seismologists thought could happen in that part
We started our third war. The United Nations called for a no-fly zone in Libya, to try to stop dictator Moammar Gaddafi’s military strikes against Libyans protesting his rule. This time NATO allies are playing a big role, with the French launching airstrikes against Gaddafi’s
And majority rules: A slim majority of Americans now support gay marriage, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.The results underscore the nation’s increasingly tolerant views about homosexuals, and parallel a string of recent legal and legislative victories for gay rights advocates. Five years
Just in case you need something else to worry about, global food prices are skyrocketing (here not so much–yet), due to increased demand and shorter supplies: Since last summer, several events — floods in Australia, blistering drought in Russia, the threat of a poor winter
Darryl Hart, a Reformed theologian who favors “confessional” Protestantism over against the new American varieties–including “neo-Calvinism”–takes up and interrogates the Calvinist critique of Lutheranism. He quotes the venerable B. B. Warfield: Just as little can the doctrine of justification by faith be represented as specifically
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