National Review's Rod Dreher wrote a good backgrounder on the case of NOW v. Scheidler. It's a good read. While I'm pro-life, I'm stridently opposed to violence at abortion clinics. My definition of violence for this case is rather broad. I would include: shooting doctors or clinic employees; stalking the same; bombing clinics; defacing clinic […]
The Washington Post's William Raspberry becomes the latest columnist to succumb to the simpleminded analogy that conservative Christians in the U.S. are like the Taliban -- only in a developmental stage. People for whom religion is the source of wisdom and truth, whose religious and civic lives are seamlessly connected, and who hold governmental authority […]
In a story that has not made the national media (and may never get much national attention), a 19-year-old homosexual man named Nicholas Gutierrez has been charged with the murder of a 51-year-old woman. The woman, Mary Stachowicz, was a Christian who reportedly questioned Gutierrez about his sexuality. Chicago Police Cmdr. Lee Epplen said Gutierrez, […]
Gov't says new rules may provoke new cases (HOYSTORY.COM) -- The U.S. government today warned America's Catholic bishops that the proposed new rules for dealing with pedophile priests are unjustified. "Based on the facts that are known to us, we continue to find it difficult to justify the rules, lacking clear and adequate evidence of […]
There's an excellent article in today's Wall Street Journal by Brendan Minter on a link between fighting terrorism and men of faith.
In a letter in this week's Time magazine, we are graced with the following from Jorma Kajaste of Espoo, Finland. The conclusion of your excellent review of the historical Abraham and the three great religions seemed to be that belief in Abraham might help bring Muslims, Jews and Christians closer to one another [Religion, Sept. […]
If you're assigning a reporter to cover the story of the discovery of an ossuary purportedly holding the bones of James, brother of Jesus, then maybe the person should have some familiarity with the Christmas story. The find is a 20-inch-long limestone ossuary, a container for bones, which some assert might have been used for […]
You can debate the wisdom or accuracy of Jerry Falwell's comments on "60 Minutes" last week calling Mohammed a terrorist, but Zakaria might want to watch it when he says, on ABC's "This Week," that those comments and similar ones made by Pat Robertson and Franklin Graham are "un-Christian." Christianity is a unique among religions […]
The Weekly Standard has a piece on the growth of Christianity in China. The developments are encouraging not only for Christianity, but also for democracy. (Journalist David) Aikman cites numbers: In 1949, when the People's Republic of China was established, not quite 4 million of 450 million Chinese were Christians. Today, the population is 1.3 […]
Author David Klinghoffer pens a piece on National Review Online that offers a brief look at an America that's not as disconnected from its spiritual roots as those in L.A. or New York would lead us to believe.