Allowing doctors to prescribe deadly drugs to assist in the suicides of their patients is not simply a one-off interaction between two consenting adults. Source: DC City Council Votes to Allow Physician-Assisted Suicide
Several recent studies have shown that many young people today, including young Catholics, lose their faith because they imagine that there is a conflict between religion and science. One could blame the “New Atheists” and their aggressive in-your-face proselytism for this. But the reason they have had any success, despite the manifest weakness of their […]
Some people hope that Pope Francis will change the Church’s teaching on contraception. He won’t. He couldn’t even if he wanted to—as Church history and Scriptures show. Part two of two. Source: Can the Pope Change Catholic Teaching? | Public Discourse
The conventional wisdom is that Hillary Clinton is reluctant to talk about religion, which is only half true. Her faith has both a public and a private face. Source: The public and private faith of Hillary Clinton – CNNPolitics.com
If the Southern Baptist church can’t be bigger, Russell Moore wants it to be better. Source: The New Evangelical Moral Minority – The New Yorker
The unapologetically fundamentalist artist, who died on Sunday, may be ‘the most widely read theologian in human history’ Source: Remembering Jack Chick: the Christian cartoonist who tried to save us from hell | Books | The Guardian
There are three groups within the existing Benedict Option discussions: the Augustinian radicals, magisterial Protestants, and illiberal Catholics. Source: Categorizing the Benedict Options | Mere Orthodoxy
Source: The Reformation and public theology: What 16th century theologians can teach a 21st century church | ERLC
To many Evangelicals, Mrs. Clinton is a perfect storm of divergent values, dismissive advocacy, and distrusted personality. Source: Why Evangelicals Dislike and Distrust Hillary Clinton So M… | The Exchange | A Blog by Ed Stetzer
If one could conceive of a single elixir to improve the physical and mental health of millions of Americans — at no personal cost — what value would our society place on it? Going a step further, if research quite conclusively showed that when consumed just once a week, this concoction would reduce mortality by […]
