Os Guinness lays the smackdown on Frank Schaeffer’s “Crazy for God.” Read more
Os Guinness lays the smackdown on Frank Schaeffer’s “Crazy for God.” Read more
Will 36,000 Alaskan fishermen receive justice tomorrow from the United States Supreme Court or will the Court favor Exxon Mobil in the case for punitive damages from the Exxon-Valdez oil spill, THE second worst environmental disaster in US history? (Edited: a reader pointed out that THE worst environmental disaster happened in Appalachia in 2000. My apologies. In any case, let us hope for the success for AK so others affected in future disasters will have hope for justice!) The Anchorage... Read more
A distinct view held in voting is that if there are no acceptable candidates, one should abstain from voting. The argument is that one shouldn’t participate in a system that promotes evil. That is stacking the argument a little bit. To put it better, the argument is that one shouldn’t encourage grievous evil, and, by proxy, one does so when one votes for a man who supports an evil program. Of course moral theology has contemplated similar things. (more…) Read more
Chris Dodd to endorse Obama today. Read more
Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. – Bobby Bragan A propos of yesterday’s post on the future of Social Security, I thought I’d say a word about two different statistics often cited in Social Security debates as evidence of the unworkability of the current system that don’t quite prove what people think. First, people often claim that while Social... Read more
Francis Bacon and those who followed in the intellectual current of modernity that he inspired were wrong to believe that man would be redeemed through science. Such an expectation asks too much of science; this kind of hope is deceptive. Science can contribute greatly to making the world and mankind more human. Yet it can also destroy mankind and the world unless it is steered by forces that lie outside it.— Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi 25 We have long... Read more
That’s what the BBC is reporting: The US is ready to accept “binding international obligations” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, officials say, if other nations do the same. The comments came in a news conference in Paris given by James Connaughton and Daniel Price, environmental and economics advisers to President Bush. The US hopes the world’s major economies will conclude a “leaders’ declaration” before the July G8 summit. There was no indication of how much the US might be prepared... Read more
According to the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life survey, the Roman Catholic Church has lost more members than any other faith tradition in the United States. Some highlights: (more…) Read more
A few years back a poll was conducted which seemed to show that people in their twenties thought they were more likely to see a UFO than they were to ever collect social security. Now the results of that particular poll were problematic, but it is true that lots of young people take it as a given that they will never collect social security, because by the time they retire the system will have gone bankrupt. I hear this sort... Read more
I have started a new blog devoted to philosophical investigations. Taking a line from Kierkegaard, I have named it “The Crowd is Untruth.” I’ll be posting on it semi-regularly (i.e., a couple times a week). So if the history of Western philosophy (e.g., Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Nietzsche, Dewey) and its contemporary trajectories interest you, then please stop by and join in the discussion anytime. Here’s the About pitch: “The Crowd is Untruth” is a Kierkegaardian clarion to self-authenticity, self-accountability and... Read more
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