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Pro-life community does not want to fund abortion provider
The greatest threat to Planned Parenthood is medical technology, not pro-life organizations, legislators, or religious views.
By Jordan Sekulow | March 1, 2011; 06:20 PM ET | Comments (11)
Welfare - real help or hindrance?
A lifetime of welfare without the expectation and means to rise out of poverty, will doom the underclass to a permanent place at the bottom of society.
By Shmully Hecht | December 21, 2010; 02:50 PM ET | Comments (1)
American exceptionalism: divine hall pass?
The fact that the idea of American exceptionalism is alive and well among the general public is not so surprising given its longstanding presence in American cultural DNA. But the current dominance of the exceptionalism-as-divine-hall-pass should concern those who hold in high esteem Winthrop's conception, which made divine exceptionalism dependent upon the moral behavior of the nation rather than the other way around.
By Robert P. Jones | December 3, 2010; 12:36 PM ET | Comments (6)
When theology leads to tragedy
Our modern world is still so afraid of our sexual selves, still so wrapped in taboos and superstitions, that it is willing to turn this ongoing tragedy into a statistic, a talking point, a moral lesson, instead of seeing the industry of ignorance, suffering, and death in which it is engaged.
By Jason Pitzl-Waters | November 22, 2010; 10:35 PM ET | Comments (1)
What the pope didn't say about condoms
The worst part is that in all the fuss over what the pope did or didn't say about condoms, many have missed the even more note-worthy and thought-provoking comments from the Benedict XVI in Light of the World.
By Danielle Bean | November 22, 2010; 12:23 PM ET | Comments (13)
Church's teaching on sexual morality can not change
Catholic church teaching on sexual morality has not changed and it will not change because it cannot be changed.
By George Weigel | November 22, 2010; 12:19 PM ET | Comments (11)
The Duke 'thesis': Karen Owen's discovery
Maybe Karen Owen's real research discovery is how cyberspace has paradoxically revealed the combustible sacrality of sexuality precisely by making it all seem so casual.
By Mathew N. Schmalz | October 9, 2010; 03:45 PM ET | Comments (3)
Writing about Beck: God made me do it
I really didn't want to bring this up but wouldn't God think it perverted for one person to criticize another's faith? Didn't God make us all in his own image?
By Sally Quinn | August 31, 2010; 11:10 AM ET | Comments (18)
Catholic views of animals
Ethical concern for animals has been on the ascendancy in Catholic thought for the last century.
By Mathew N. Schmalz | June 15, 2010; 11:54 PM ET | Comments (62)
Human and religious limitations
The Gulf oil spill will also reveal the limitations of our own ability to appreciate the complex and conflicted role of religion in our contemporary world.
By Mathew N. Schmalz | June 2, 2010; 09:16 AM ET | Comments (0)
