by Marcia Segelstein
Do you ever wonder what the world will be like in 20 or 30 years? If you’re a parent or a grandparent, chances are you’ve thought a lot about the world the next generation will inhabit. And if you’re a Christian, no doubt you’ve wondered if Christian values will be part of the mainstream culture, or whether such values will even be tolerated. Read more…
by Sheila Liaugminas
Policies of the federal government under the Obama administration have ignited a blaze of concerns about fundamental religious liberties in America.
Archbishop Timothy Dolan, president of the US bishops conference, wrote a letter to the president recently. Read more…
A report recently issued by the National Religious Broadcasters has found that Facebook, Apple iTunes, and other new media platforms censor Christian viewpoints, particularly about homosexuality. Read more…
by Marcia Segelstein
In the not too distant past, traditionalists theorized that when it came to raising children, the answer was to retreat from the world. Use private or parochial schools. Or even better, homeschool. Raise up a generation of kids who would change the world by trying to raise them outside the world.
To some degree, I concur. Homeschooling and using Christian and other private schools are great options for those who have the time and resources. Read more…
The 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth shows that adults who grew up in intact families and currently attended weekly religious services are least likely to “ever assault someone.”
This article comes from the Marriage and Religion Research Institute. Read more…
September 29th, 2011
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Dr. Michael Youssef
The ANC (American News Commentary) reported in its September 21, 2011 issue that the ACLU is defending the right of Muslims to exercise prayer in public schools in San Diego… Really? Read more…
September 27th, 2011
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by Anthony Esolen
September 27, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/09/3766
Slandering their fathers while energetically progressing “somewhere,” the progressive is always in a position of impiety.
I have been puzzling over the term “progressive.” Read more…
September 27th, 2011
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by Chris Woodward and Jody Brown
A prominent American university has decided five on-campus Christian groups are in violation of the school’s non-discrimination policy and has placed the groups on “provisional status” — a move described by one conservative group as nothing short of religious bigotry. Read more…
September 16th, 2011
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Take note of the parts in blue at the bottom.
by Maggie Gallagher
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011, was a good day for marriage.
North Carolina legislators voted to send a marriage amendment to the people of that state in 2012.
And in New York, the first clear Democratic casualty of gay marriage emerged: David Weprin. Read more…
September 3rd, 2011
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by Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D. and Scott Talkington, Ph.D.
Dr. Fagan is senior fellow and director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) at Family Research Council.
The 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth shows that students who now worship weekly and who grew up with two married parents are most likely to have received a high school degree. Read more…
by Michael Cook
In a race to the bottom of ethics, an American philosopher may have got there first.
“The religious fundamentalists are correct: without God, there is no morality. But they are incorrect, I still believe, about there being a God. Hence, I believe, there is no morality.” Read more…
Cato Institute scholar Doug Bandow has a column on the rise of religious persecution around the world. Basing his column on a report by the Pew Forum on Religion, Bandow notes that
According to Pew’s new study, “more than 2.2 billion people — about a third of the world’s population– live in countries where government restrictions or social hostilities involving religion are increasing. About 1% live in countries where government restrictions or social hostilities are decreasing.”
In many cases these restrictions are not minor. Explained Pew: “The number of countries in which governments used at least some measure of force against religious groups or individuals rose from 91 (46%) in the period ending in mid-2008 to 101 (51%) in the period ending in mid-2009. This violence was wide-ranging, including individuals being killed, physically abused, imprisoned, detained or displaced from their homes, as well as damage to or destruction of personal or religious properties.”… Read more…
by Robert Knight
We’ve got a word for people who hate Christmas. The Grinch.
What should we call people who hate America’s Judeo-Christian heritage, even to the point of barring clergy at a ceremony at the site of a major tragedy? Read more…
by Helen Alvaré
August 26, 2011 http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2011/08/3800
Religious communities are an essential part of the fabric of America, even over and above the vital services they provide to weak and vulnerable members of our communities; we must protect their conscience rights against legal coercion. Read more…
By Francis J. Beckwith
With the increasing likelihood that Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for President, it is important for Catholics and other Christians to reflect on some concerns raised by Damon Linker in a 2007 New Republic article. Linker argues that Mormon theology does not have important resources that traditional Christians have at their disposal, such as natural-law theory. Read more…
by Dennis Prager
The Decalogue is as relevant today as it was 3,000 years ago.
There is only one solution to the world’s problems, only one prescription for producing a near-heaven on earth.
It is 3,000 years old. Read more…
From PublicDiscourse.com.
These quotes by Chesterton are the highlights of this article:
The English journalist and cultural critic G.K. Chesterton noted in the early twentieth century that the general disposition of modern men has been to “say something more like this: ‘We hold these truths to be probable enough for pragmatists; that all things looking like men were evolved somehow, being endowed by heredity and environment with no equal rights, but very unequal wrongs,’ and so on.” Read more…
A couple of months ago, Ari had posted about a San Francisco ballot initiative that would have banned male circumcision in that city.
Now, a Superior Court judge has ruled that the measure be removed from the ballot, saying that the state, not cities, has the right to regulate medical procedures. She also found that ban would violate the free exercise of religion: Read more…
by Francois Jacob
The UN wants young people to change the world. In Madrid the Pope will ask them to change themselves.
Today, a thousand or so youth activists from around the world gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a high level meeting on the theme of “dialogue and mutual understanding”. The two-day UN youth summitmarks the culmination of an international Year of Youth that began last August and ends on the annual UN World Youth Day, August 12th. Read more…
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