Darrow tells of sitting on a plane years ago next to an executive of a leading European electric company. In their conversation the gentleman related some of the firm’s history. For years, they had asked three questions of any proposed product. If they couldn’t answer all three in the affirmative,
Only God knows where the COVID 19 storm will take us. Some trends are encouraging, some prognostications troubling. Yet, as many have observed, the pandemic isn’t the leading cause of death in the world. Most likely, you have not been told what is. Seasonal flu? Smoking? Cancer? No. Nor is
As the Coronavirus leaps around the globe we are probably watching the veritable tip of the iceberg. As of February 26, the disease had infected 81,600 people, at least 2,767 had died, and thirty-nine nations had reported confirmed cases of COVID-19, the official name for the Coronavirus (which first appeared
Is biblical morality dead? When airliners flew into the twin towers in September 2001, it was immediately apparent that the US was under attack. And people reacted. Those in the immediate vicinity literally ran for their lives, but all America sat up and took notice. In a moment of national
Not every religion enables self-control Years ago I saw a sign in an office kitchen: “Your mother doesn’t work here; please clean up after yourself.” It’s not hard to imagine the back story: otherwise-responsible adults (they were holding down jobs, after all) leaving dirty cups in the sink. Somebody else
Quillette recently published, “Why White Privilege Is Wrong.” The authors, Cambridge PhD students Vincent Harinam and Rob Henderson, report some surprising findings. White privilege as social theory claims that benefits accrue to individuals because of their skin color: “White privilege refers to a set of built-in advantages held by whites.
Ana Santos grew up in Brazil; today she labors with victims of human trafficking in the Mediterranean world. Human trafficking is the criminal recruitment or transportation of persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation, forced labor, the removal of organs and other similar acts.[1] Modern-day bondage enslaves more than 46
In April we published Yesterday’s Eugenics, Today’s Infanticide about the link between Darwin’s theory and the German Second Reich. The former became a building block for the latter. “It was the Second Reich, the German regime defeated in WWI, that first found in Darwinism the biological rationale to justify 16
US Attorney General Bill Barr A political theory says the fiery oratory of a leader has less effect than the collective, quieter influence of his subordinates. Let’s hope so. That’s one way to reflect on a recent speech by President Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr at Notre Dame. His forty-minute
Words aren’t generally religious per se, but some words are clearly associated with Christianity. Not just technical terms like sanctification or dispensationalism but everyday words like bishop, chapel, devil, disciple, minister, sin. Words children use. Nevertheless, more than a decade ago, editors of the Oxford Junior Dictionary removed those very
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