Some people value dissent. Some people don’t. Via The Corner comes this NPR piece on what the Smithsonian Institution and the National Center for Science Education did to Richard Sternberg, a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health. He dared to publish an article on intelligent design theory in a journal […]
Go immediately to Ocular Fusion.
Via the World Magazine Blog, The Times of London has a simultaneously silly and nasty piece going after C.S. Lewis in anticipation of the Narnia movie (29 days and counting). It’s silly because of what it assumes about American Christians who admire his writings and nasty because… well because it is nasty:
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Mike Cope has banned someone from commenting on his blog. No, not me. Not yet.
The original posts and comments that prompted it were about a medical student conference, religious porn, and an article criticizing Christian bookstores for not having books on AIDS and poverty. Underlying all the discusion though, was the increasingly […]
Christopher Hitchens on the Laura Ingraham Show (paraphrase):
If you doubt that the rioters in France are Muslim radicals or that they’re being incited by Islamist web-sites, just go there and cover the story wearing a yarmulke. See what happens to you.
They have also targeted churches.
Which will happen first? The French […]
Frontline has what looks to be a fascinating documentary tonight, “The Last Abortion Clinic:”
Pro-life advocates have waged a successful campaign to reduce abortions in many places throughout the country. By using state laws to regulate and limit abortion and by creating their own clinics to offer alternatives to women, they have changed the […]
What does it mean when Amazon suggests that I read both this book and this one?
From the companion site, Church for Men:
The typical U.S. Congregation draws an adult crowd that’s 61% female, 39% male. This gender gap shows up in all age categories. This Sunday almost 25 percent of […]
Extremist has been bugging me to post, so here goes…
While Googling an obscure bit of information from The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis, I came across this article by Ted Byfield. Byfield is the general editor of The Christians, a twelve-volume history of the Church. We have the first six […]
Prompted by the discussions about Harding University, Americanism, and anti-communism here, here, here, here, here and here — I recently went looking online for more information about Harding’s National Education Program (NEP) and found a gold mine of videos at the Prelinger Archives.
In the 1940s and 50s, Harding College became nationally known for […]
Catching up on some of what I missed while out of town last week, I saw this from Christopher Hitchens.
It looks like British MP George Galloway’s diatribe before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations was not just insulting, anti-American, moonbat nonsense; it was also perjurious. Though the Senators were shamefully silent […]
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