This just in from U.S. News: Acceptance of Polygamy Is at a Record High, and TV Might Explain Why. The article credits the popularity of the reality television series “Sister Wives” with changing public mores about polygamy. Google describes the series: “The rarely seen world of a polygamist family is
All culture is local. You hear that sentiment sometimes in a discussion about cultural norms, customs, or values, especially when an outsider implies any criticism. On its face, the expression may be true. The problem is the subtext. Often, it’s a way to forbid any critique of a culture from
People in a locked-in state can have a real life? When it comes to referencing disabilities here in the West our vocabulary has changed. At one time, anyone with a mental illness was labelled “crazy” or “insane.” Those with slower response times were “dim-witted.” A cleft palate was a “hare
Raise your hand if you knew the word “binary” dates from over 500 years ago! According to the Oxford Universal English Dictionary, the term first appeared in 1460. For centuries, the adjective has meant, “of, pertaining to, characterized by, or compounded of, two.” In music, a binary measure is that
Photo by David Dennis, Scotts Valley, CA The news about ISIS is improving. That’s good. Maybe we will see a reversal in a trend noted back in May, in a story at nypost.com: “Meet the American women who are flocking to join ISIS,” opens with this troubling paragraph, ISIS is
If you’re looking for work, you want to find a good job. You’re not the only one. If you’re a parent, you want your child to find a good job. And not you only. These desires are universal. They testify to something about the human heart. God wired us to
Self-control —more accurately, the utter lack of self-control—was featured in Scott Allen’s recent post, “The Tyranny of Feelings.” Scott pointed his readers to the story and video of the so-called “Shrieking Girl.” That’s a recently acquired moniker for a Yale student who screamed vulgarities at an esteemed (by others, anyway) professor.
Mike and Karen Pence, photo by Gage Skidmore “To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their conscience are defiled,” Titus 1:15 ESV. The polluted conscience of an unbelieving mind defiles even what is innocent and pure.
In the West, we have a new coping mechanism for a guilty conscience. Just slander those who disagree with you. When anyone attempts to speak, even with courtesy, from a biblically informed perspective on morality, just shout them down and call them hateful. I thought about this while preparing Darrow’s
In the first of this two-part series we highlighted the Philadelphia Boys’ Latin school. This institution is graduating young men of character whose language skills outstrip most of their peers. Eighty percent are going on to college. Anyone who learns Latin will be a better reader of English (or French, Italian,
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