Monogamy Is Unnatural
Monogamy is not natural, it’s supernatural
If you aren’t strong enough to stay committed to one person, that’s your business. Walk down that path of loneliness and confusion, but you can’t drag the entire institution of marriage along with you. Personally, I like circles but I hate squares. Can I subvert the laws of geometry and suddenly decide that all squares... Continue Reading
The Confidence of Jerry Coyne
Eliminative-materialism makes a kind of hard-and-fast moral realism logically impossible; it can never get to an absolute “thou shalt not murder”
The theme of his argument is the crucial importance of human agency under eliminative materialism, but if under materialist premises the actual agent is quite possibly a fiction, then who exactly is this I who “reads” and “learns” and “teaches,” and why in the universe’s name should my illusory self believe Coyne’s bold proclamation that his illusory self’s purposes... Continue Reading
Will Utah Eventually End America’s Same-Sex Marriage Debate?
The final ruling on Kitchen v. Herbert could accomplish what DOMA and Prop. 8 cases failed to do.
The case will now go through the Tenth Circuit, which granted an expedited briefing schedule for the state’s appeal. Utah’s successful request for a stay of Shelby’s ruling restores the same-sex marriage ban in Utah until the appeal process is complete. More than 900 gay and lesbian couples have already married since the ruling. The... Continue Reading
The Distinct, Positive Impact of a Good Dad
How fathers contribute to their kids' lives
Fathers play an important role in protecting their children from threats in the larger environment. For instance, fathers who are engaged in their children’s lives can better monitor their children’s comings and goings, as well as the peers and adults in their children’s lives, compared to disengaged or absent fathers. Of course, mothers can do... Continue Reading
5 Signs Kids are Struggling with Entitlement
It is possible to raise grateful, hard-working kids who put others first
I love to help my kids out. But there’s a fine line between helping and aiding bad behavior. If my child forgets their lunch every day and I bring it every day, there’s really not a reason for them to ever be responsible. My kids expected us to give them money for a gift for... Continue Reading
Biblical Archaeology’s Top Ten Discoveries of 2013
A glimpse into the important work that goes on at excavations across Israel every year.
These discoveries illustrate the important work that goes on at excavations across Israel every year, and just scratch the surface of what has been found in 2013. Quite possibly a decade from now, with added perspective and more digging, the most important discoveries of 2013 may look different than this list. Biblical Archaeology discoveries... Continue Reading
A Real Cause for Christian Outrage
Believers around the world are dying for their faith. Where’s the evangelical groundswell for them?
Whig politician and statesman Edmund Burke said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Whatever the root cause of Western Christian silence on the matter of global Christian persecution—be it the silence of the media, the culture wars, economic concerns, busyness, lack of global awareness, a passive... Continue Reading
The Winter of Christian Discontent in The Arab World
Too many "well-meaning" individuals and groups have swallowed the fallacious Palestinian Narrative of Victimhood in the Middle East
Persecution of Christians in the Islamic Middle East has intensified in recent years, and the fear now is that Christianity may be becoming extinct in the area where it has existed for two millennia. They are criticized, absurdly, as Crusaders, or as colonialists associated with the West, or as infidels. The exception, and the only... Continue Reading
Religious Freedom Bill Shot Down In Knesset Vote
Constitutional law that would have allowed for civil and gay marriage is defeated in preliminary reading.
The Freedom of Religion and Conscience bill, sponsored by Meretz MK Zahava Gal-on, aimed to block discrimination on religious grounds and allow for civil marriage regardless of race, sex, citizenship, and religion. A bill that aimed to formally separate between religion and state in Israel was rejected by a 56 to 21 margin in its... Continue Reading
Duck Dynasty and Natural Law
Natural law is the truths communicated through the design of nature; they are self-evident by design
Gary Brown raises the natural law question. Is homosexuality so much a reversal of the natural order—including the way that God made men and women—that it cannot stand? Did Phil Robertson upset GLAAD so much because he stated in his blunt way some physical truths that the gay lobby cannot gainsay? We’re getting lots... Continue Reading
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