Don’t Call North Carolina’s Amendment 1 a Ban!
So says Ryan T. Anderson at National Review, splitting hairs and missing the point: Today’s vote in North Carolina is not about banning anything. Nothing will be made illegal as a result. In all...
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A Rational, Religious Mind
Alex Knapp summarizes the reason why many Christians reject the science of evolution: For some Christians, evolution would, if true, completely shatter the doctrine of Original Sin. After all, if humans evolved, then there...
What Would Approving of Homosexuality Mean for the Roman Catholic Church?
For one thing, it would have to give up its claim to infallibility. Over at Vox Nova, I explain briefly what other changes the church would have to make, how the lives of gay...
Not Exactly ‘The Notebook’
My wife and I were conversing the other day about growing old, losing our wits, forgetting ourselves and others while doing our best to remain in love. She asked me, in a voice seeking...
Two Embarrassing Episodes
In high school, only one kid sat lower on the social totem pole than I did. He made boogers out of rubber cement and stuck them up his nose. Back then I picked my...
The Assurances of Infallibility
Show me an alleged divinely-revealed truth, and I will show you the operations of religious authority, for there can be no transmission of such truth-claims without some degree of power. Not every religious authority,...
Love Has No Time Constraints
Avery Lynn Canahuati, the five-month-old with spinal muscular atrophy whom I wrote about on Saturday, passed away Monday afternoon due to pulmonary complications. She had been expected to live another 18 months, so her...
Moments in Parenting When You Don’t Know What to Say
When I first held my firstborn son and gazed into his innocent eyes, I knew that the world would corrupt him, so I decided then and there to do everything in my power to...
