Book review: A Special Mother Is Born

Gerard Nadal writes: This book addresses one of the burning issues of our day. With prenatal diagnostics leading to the abortions of the less-than-perfect among us, with parents who are frightened into paralysis by these diagnoses and a medical establishment increasingly surrendering to the cowardice of eugenics, over thirty mothers and three fathers of special [...]

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What makes something right or wrong?

It matters what you base your ethics on.

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Reagan being honored in Europe

Statues are being unveiled and streets renamed.

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Playing God, etc.

From Mark P. Shea, answering a question on how he’d deal with a couple that aborted a baby diagnosed with severe deformity (which certainly would have been fatal, if the diagnosis was correct): Part of the difficulty here is that such questions usually involve several parts. What does God think? What would I do? What [...]

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The state’s view of the family

Food for thought from Anthony Esolen: The welfare state begins by compelling people to put money aside for their old age — the fiction of the Social Security trust fund comes to mind.  There, at least, there is some correspondence between what the state takes from you and what the state will give back.  And [...]

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Funny thing about objectors to ‘indoctrination’

From a Mere Comments post by James M. Kushiner: Heads, hearts, not to mention C. S. Lewis’s “chest” need to be properly formed, that is to say, informed. Those who object that this amounts to indoctrination are probably most likely to be the most eager to educate your children.  

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“The Birth of Freedom” DVD course

I recently worked my way through The Birth of Freedom: How Biblical Foundations Changed History, the 7-session version hosted by Dave Stotts. (Publisher’s page here.) Each session is short (roughly ten to fifteen minutes), with a few follow-up questions and answers. It’s a good overview, debunking the baseless-and-rather-upside-down-but-widespread notion that Christianity somehow held back the [...]

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The new issue of Religion & Liberty…

… looks very interesting. (I haven’t had a chance to read any of it yet, but past issues have been very informative and thought-provoking, and I wanted to make a link for me as well as for you, so I don’t forget to go back to it.)

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How would you know…

…if your society was gripped by evil? Is it like smog, invisible when you’re in it? Or is there perhaps some test you can apply, looking around at your society, wherever you happen to be? (hat tip: Amy Welborn)

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