2015-01-08T18:05:48-04:00

There I was, sitting at the brass-railed open bar with a posh knot of gents in blazers and bowties, jawboning the culture wars. By the third Tanqueray and tonic, a warm haze of nostalgia had swept me away. Drinking top-shelf gin on somebody else’s dime and discussing the Great Ideas stripped off ten years and twenty pounds… I felt like an undergrad again. I’d met these fine fellows through a highbrow conservative journal, and for hours felt right at home,... Read more

2015-01-08T18:05:48-04:00

Robert Nicholson It’s almost accepted knowledge today that Dr. Martin Luther King was, or would have been, deeply hostile to the State of Israel. Social activists have been using his name, his image, and snippets from his powerful speeches to bookend their own unfair condemnation of the Jewish state for years. Not having done the research myself, I like most people believed their rhetoric and chalked up King’s anti-Israelism as possibly his only visible flaw. The truth, I am happy... Read more

2015-01-08T18:05:48-04:00

Lindzen doesn’t deny that the climate has changed or that the planet has warmed. “We all agree that temperature has increased since 1800,” he tells me. There’s a caveat, though: It’s increased by “a very small amount. We’re talking about tenths of a degree [Celsius]. We all agree that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. All other things kept equal, [there has been] some warming. As a result, there’s hardly anyone serious who says that man has no role. And in... Read more

2015-01-08T18:05:49-04:00

“Collaborative reproduction” is an Orwellian euphemism for commoditized wombs. It must be recognized for what it is: the legalized, profit-based exploitation of the weakest among us—women in need. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/01/11854/?utm_source=The+Witherspoon+Institute&utm_campaign=6fc20456cc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_15ce6af37b-6fc20456cc-84107317 Read more

2015-01-08T18:05:49-04:00

No one — not even the most sophisticated advocate of abortion choice — denies that the unborn are human beings, but one can only exclude them from the community of those whose lives we must respect if one claims that they lack some morally significant characteristic that is possessed by mature and healthy human beings. If this is true, as some abortion-choice advocates maintain, then some human beings are so intrinsically inferior to others that they not only lack moral... Read more

2015-01-08T18:05:49-04:00

Tragedy has twice visited the Woodiwiss family. In 2008, Anna Woodiwiss, then 27, was working for a service organization in Afghanistan. On April 1, she went horseback riding and was thrown, dying from her injuries. In 2013, her younger sister Catherine, then 26, was biking to work from her home in Washington. She was hit by a car and her face was severely smashed up. She has endured and will continue to endure a series of operations. For a time,... Read more

2015-01-08T18:05:49-04:00

The pro-life movement has won a great battle by convincing the American public that an unborn child is a person. But that is not enough. Now, we must make an ethical argument against the horrific injustice of abortion. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2014/01/11929/?utm_source=Public+Discourse&utm_campaign=9e46a9a7c2-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_efeee0c775-9e46a9a7c2-74682993 Read more

2015-01-08T18:05:49-04:00

Why is Calvinism so influential among American Evangelicals while Lutheranism is not? We might describe the statistically modal convert to Calvinism—that is, the most frequently observed kind of convert—as a person like this: A young adult, usually male. Raised in a broad though indistinct Evangelical (and sometimes nominally Catholic) home. Bright. A reader. Searching for better intellectual answers to questions about God, Jesus and the Bible. Is open to becoming a pastor. Why does this young man so much more... Read more

2015-01-08T18:05:49-04:00

Nadav Na’aman suggests that the Stepped Stone Structure, which extends down the slope from the Large Stone Structure and is built of a fill of stones and earth, may be the Millo referenced in the Book of Samuel. http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/jerusalem/king-davids-palace-and-the-millo/ Read more

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Dr. Alveda C. King is a Pastoral Associate and Director of African-American Outreach for Priests for Life and Gospel of Life Ministries. The daughter of the late civil rights activist Rev. A.D. King and his wife Naomi Barber King, Alveda grew up in the civil rights movement led by her uncle, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her family home in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed, as was her father’s church office in Louisville, Kentucky. Alveda was jailed during the open housing... Read more

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