How come almost no one has picked up on this story?
Darwin's theory of distribution
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To do: "Sonogram, funeral plans"
There are two kinds of people in this world who cannot avoid wrestling with the term “theodicy” — clergy (especially hospital chaplains) and reporters who are committed to covering religion news.
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Church-state cross-currents
Have you ever considered branding an eighth-grader’s arm in the shape of a cross with a high voltage device?
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Two passengers and a baby
At the beginning of the month we looked at the various and sundry ways the mainstream media reported on the stabbing of an 8-months-pregnant woman and the kidnapping of her baby. Some people called the child, who was taken from the mother’s womb, a “fetus” while others called it a “baby.”
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None dare call it "baby"
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Beyond belief (and news)
Which is more newsworthy? Well, the answer very much depends on the lens journalists are using to cover the nomination of Dr. Francis Collins to head the National Institutes of Health. President Barack Obama’s nomination of the renowned geneticist and public Christian hasn’t flooded the news pages — but it is making waves on the opinion pages and the blogosphere.
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The patriotic duty to die
Because we’re seeing so many stories about bioethics, I’ve been trying to learn a bit more the field of thought. I recently read G.K. Chesterton’s “Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State.” It’s a collection of essays written in the 1920s at the height of the eugenics movement. One of the things I found so interesting about the book is that if it were read in the 1920s, one would think that Chesterton was fighting a lonely and losing battle. But a few more decades of eugenics — punctuated by the Nazi embrace, of course — and people began questioning and rejecting it.
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How do you like them "apples"?
As you may have noticed, we don’t ignore hot button topics, even when they involve sex, sexuality and the sex lives of politicians. There are many places where sex and religion coverage intersect. One of those places is in the arena of sex and values education — a topic which traditionally was the province of families and religious communities.
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Seeking evidence for saints unseen
Last week my son and I saw the Galileo/Medici exhibit at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Science Museum. The information about Galileo’s trial didn’t go below the surface or delineate the church’s efforts to move beyond it, which was too bad.
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