The vast revolutions in morality that have reshaped the modern landscape have been spectacularly successful, with very few exceptions. In the last hal...
With Christmas just days away, the Vatican evidently thought it was high time to reverse 2,000 years of Christian tradition and allow priests to bless...
Most of us know we’re living in consequential times, but sometimes it seems we’re living in truly dangerous times. Just over the course of the last fe...
So, what about the new speaker of the House? Is he a kind and gracious man or “a right-wing fever dream come to life,” as one columnist declared? Actu...
The National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a massive research report on the sexual habits of Americans aged 15 to 44. The most interesting data concerns the teenagers. As reported in The W ...
Press reports indicate that a leading American medical center, The Cleveland Clinic, is ready to start an experimental program in human face transplantation. This represents a host of truly ominous and complicated ethical issues, ranging from what wo ...
Historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., one of the paladins of American liberalism, remembers the late Reinhold Niebuhr in Sunday's edition of The New York Times. Schlesinger and his generation were shaped by Niebuhr's "rediscovery" of the doctrine of sin ...
Here's a bit of common sense verified by science and modern medicine. Delaying marriage often leads to a delay in having babies. Now, BBC News reports that women delaying children until after age 35 are risking both health and heartbreak. Over the la ...
The Guardian [London} reports: Fertility ships where British couples will be able to receive treatment forbidden in the UK could soon be anchored off the coast in international waters. Entrepreneurs are planning to hire ships to offer treatments that ...
Grace Dyck offers a troubling view into her experience as a student in a 'Family Studies" course at the university level. "Finally, I thought. I'll get some solid instruction to aide me as I build a family. Wrong again." She was enrolled in several c ...
Newsweek reports that educators are finding that boys and girls learn differently - leading to a reconsideration of educating boys and girls together in the same classroom. In "Boy Brains, Girl Brains," reporter Peg Tyre lays out the story -- and the ...
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music, The Larry Kramer Initiative for Lesbian & Gay Studies, and other Yale University programs have announced a conference entitled, "Sex and Religion in Migration." Curious? See the announcement: Welcome to the web ...
My commentary for today, "Is the Pledge of Allegiance Unconstitutional?," deals with the meaning of Judge Lawrence Karlton's ruling that the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in the public schools is unconstitutional. The fallout from this ridic ...
The Guardian [London] reports that a Chinese cosmetic company is preparing a line of beauty products for sale in Europe that uses skin harvested from the corpses of executed prisoners. Consider these excerpts from the paper's investigative report: A ...