I recently entered the fray at the Life Training Institute blog, making a case for prolife incrementalism in response to a comment post by Rebecca Kiessling. My post may be found here. Read more
I recently entered the fray at the Life Training Institute blog, making a case for prolife incrementalism in response to a comment post by Rebecca Kiessling. My post may be found here. Read more
On April 15 and 16 I will be participating in a conference at Monte Vista Chapel, an Evangelical church in Turlock, California. My talk is entitled, “No God, No Good: Why the Moral Law Requires a Moral Lawgiver.” The other participants include my friends William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland, Greg Koukl, Jay Richards, and Craig Hazen. Here is a list of all the sessions, including the speakers and their talk titles: April 15, 2011: Kick Off with Hazen, Moreland,... Read more
Apparently so, according to the Attorney General and the President. On Wednesday, they told us that they will no longer defend sec. 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act in federal court because it is unconstitutional, since it allegedly violates the 5th amendment and thus does not withstand heightened scrutiny. Here’s what sec. 3 states: “In determining the meaning of any Act of Congress, or of any ruling, regulation, or interpretation of the various administrative bureaus and agencies of the... Read more
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Several weeks ago a colleague and I hosted a screening of The Catholicism Project at The St. Peter’s Catholic Student Center at Baylor University. You should consider hosting a screening as well at your local parish, school, or university. Produced by Fr. Robert Barron’s Word of Fire ministry, this is a remarkable documentary. Learn more about it and how to host a screening, here. Read more
That is the title of my latest column at The Catholic Thing. Here’s how it begins: Over at the website Public Discourse, two outstanding Catholic philosophers, Christopher Tollefsen and Christopher Kaczor, have published essays about the morality of the tactics of the prolife group, Live Action. Two other Catholic philosophers, Robert P. George and Joseph Bottum have weighed in as well. Live Action recently released a video that included two of its members posing as a pimp and prostitute during... Read more
Just read about this at Mirror of Justice (HT: Rick Garnett): Notre Dame Vita Institute In furtherance of Project Guadalupe‘s goal to form the next generation of pro-life leadership through scholarship and service, the Notre Dame Fund to Protect Human Life is pleased to announce its inaugural Notre Dame Vita Institute to be held June 12-24, 2011, administered under the auspices of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. Held on the beautiful Notre Dame campus, the Vita Institute will educate participants in... Read more
I have the honor of serving as program chair for the 21st annual conference of the University Faculty for Life, which will be held at the University of Notre Dame on June 10-11, 2011. The on-campus host is Notre Dame philosophy professor, David Solomon, W.P. and H.B. White Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics & Culture, where I served as the Mary Anne Remick Senior Visiting Fellow in 2008-2009. If you are a prolife academic (or retired academic),... Read more
I went to afternoon Mass today. I sat one row over from an elderly woman (who I later discovered was a “nun”) who apparently decided that the Novus Ordo was not to her liking. So, instead of saying this, “May the Lord receive the sacrifice from your hands to the praise and glory of His name, for our good and the good of all His Church,” she said this, “May the Lord receive the sacrifice from your hands to the... Read more
The 2004 book I co-edited with William Lane Craig and J. P. Moreland, To Everyone An Answer: A Case for the Christian Worldview (InterVarsity Press) is now available on Amazon’s Kindle. You can find it here. Read more
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