Lawmakers now are worried about the consequences of requiring everyone to buy health insurance. That will mean lots of people are going to have to come up with the equivalent of another month’s rent in their monthly budgets: But even after Max Baucus (D-Mont.) spoke
A Roman Catholic publisher in England has come out with a Prayer Book for Spouses that includes a “Prayer Before Making Love.” It reads: Father, send your Holy Spirit into our hearts. Place within us love that truly gives, tenderness that truly unites, self-offering that
The man who solved the world’s food problem, Norman Borlaug, died at 95. His applications of agricultural science launched the so-called “green revolution,” not in the sense of environmentalism but in growing an abundance of green, productive plant life. Scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner
Last Spring I blogged about a new play called Wittenberg, which is about three individuals whom history and literature place at the University of Wittenberg: two professors, a Dr. Luther and a Dr. Faustus, and a student, a Danish international student named Hamlet. See A
My colleague Mark Mitchell has published a scintillating article in Touchstone that touches on one of our recent discussion on homeschooling, offers a model of childraising, and raises something that we hardly ever hear about anymore: the moral imagination. Samples: Are we raising kids who
We should always honor the victims and the heroes who gave their lives on this date. And it should remind us to be always vigilant against the threat of terrorism. But, at some point, do we need to put what happened on September 11, 2001,
Here is a beautiful, evocative picture taken by the Hubble telescope. vast streams of gas racing at over 600,000mph from a dying star. This gossamer, delicate image is of streams of gas shooting out at 600,000 m.p.h. from a dying star. The beautiful and the
Now this is disturbing: One in every 33 women who attend worship services regularly has been the target of sexual advances by a religious leader, a survey released Wednesday says. The study, by Baylor University researchers, found that the problem is so pervasive that it
Here is the President’s speech to Congress in which he makes his case for Health Care reform. Are you persuaded? Here is his explanation of the system he wants to implement: First, if you are among the hundreds of millions of Americans who already have
Dan Brown, author of the Christian-bashing, made-up-history-presented-as-truth, mega-selling novel The Da Vinci Code has a new book out, The Lost Symbol. This time the conspiracy has to do with Masons and Washington, D.C., as well as the Catholic church. Critics are lampooning the thing, but
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