Will It Matter to Jews If There Is a Mormon President? http://www.jidaily.com/ne4a/e Read more

One commonly hears, especially in church, that Jesus routinely transgressed the Torah, the law of Israel. Indeed, at least one New Testament writer agreed, saying that Jesus “abolished the law with its commandments and ordinances” (Ephesians 2:15). So what about Jesus? Did he observe the Torah like most other Jews of his day, or did he transgress it? http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-carey/jesus-and-the-torah_b_1456067.html Read more

In this column, I intend to do three things: first, provide some simple definitions of the unfamiliar terms mentioned above; second, reply to the view that the conditions to which they refer are ordered expressions of human sexuality; and third, offer some very brief ethical reflections in light of Catholic teaching on “sex reassignment surgery” (SRS), more popularly called a “sex-change operation,” but also known as “genital reconstruction surgery.” http://www.zenit.org/article-34663?l=english Read more

Serious critical scholarly work on the Jewishness of Christianity, and of Jesus in particular, has been vigorously ongoing for some two centuries. Until very recently, it has been a largely Christian project, but over the past fifty years, in ever-larger numbers, Jewish scholars too have joined in. These three works—The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Boyarin’s Jewish Gospels, and Kosher Jesus—testify variously to this fact. That this work now increasingly finds a popular audience is an interesting fact of our cultural... Read more

Did Bob Simon do a hatchet job on Israel in his “60 Minutes” slot, entitled “Christians in the Holy Land”? Of course he did. Should he have been surprised – and even put out -that Israel’s US Ambassador Michael Oren presumed that he would do a ‘hatchet job’ on a story on Israel? Well, that is another matter. But he did attempt to browbeat Oren and even manipulated an anti-Semitic metaphor (Jews caring about money) to do so. http://blogs.jpost.com/content/bob-simon-cbs-throw-jews-lions Read more

When it comes to Muslim persecution of Christians, the mainstream media (MSM) has a long paper trail of obfuscating; while they eventually do state the bare-bone facts—if they ever report on the story in the first place, which is rare—they do so after creating and sustaining an aura of moral relativism that minimizes the Muslim role. http://www.meforum.org/3217/media-muslim-persecution-christians Read more

In her memoir, long-time abortionist Merle Hoffman wages a war against nature’s decree that only women can keep the human race going by bearing children. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/04/5131?utm_source=RTA+Somarriba+nature&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email Read more

By UWE SIEMON-NETTO Keynote address given to an international convention of veterans of the South Vietnamese Army Medical Corps in Westminster, Cal., April 15, 2012 I am flattered to have been asked to speak to you today almost half a century after I first arrived in Vietnam as a West German war correspondent. That was before the first American combat forces landed in Da Nang. It was then that I developed a passionate love for your country and its people... Read more

All citizens should support Pain-Capable Child Protection Acts because the unborn can feel pain prior to birth, and laws protecting them from pain are constitutional. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/04/5176?utm_source=RTA+Collett+Fetal+Pain&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email Read more

Nature exhibits finality and purpose in its various activities, and chance is not, indeed cannot be, an explanation for this activity. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/04/5119?utm_source=RTA+Carroll+Nature+Purpose&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email Read more