Even diehard Apple aficionados had to admit recently that the frenzy over iPads had gone too far when a 17 year-old in China sold his kidney on the black market to buy the coveted device. According to People’s Daily Online, Xiao Zheng, who lives in the southern province of Guangdong, received the equivalent of $3,300 […]
Giving a Kidney for an iPad? Read Post »
Renowned throughout the world as an evangelical leader, preacher, and author, John Stott is the founder of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity. Fueled by a desire to see God’s people live for God’s glory in God’s world, Stott has endeavored to equip Christians to understand social issues from a biblical vantage point. In the
Friends of the Earth?—John R. W. Stott Read Post »
As a philosopher, I find it a little embarrassing that the only two direct Bible references to my discipline are sort of negative. First, there’s Colossians 2:8: “Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elemental forces of the world, and not based
Watch Out for Philosophy! Read Post »
Louis Menand is a distinguished professor of English, whose book, The Metaphysical Club won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2001. As a seasoned, thoughtful, and increasingly vocal public intellectual, he is worth listening to. In today’s The New Yorker, Louis Menand offers an extended review essay on what amounts to the devolution of liberal arts
The End of Higher Education Read Post »
On November 20, 1920, the nascent Soviet government released what it termed a simple “public health announcement.” The statement, a missive intended as law, proclaimed a new, fully-funded program for women: legalized abortions, available free of charge at state-run hospitals. By keeping abortions high and the birth rate low, Soviet leaders and their sycophants hoped
Early Evil: The Legalization of Abortion in Russia (1920) Read Post »
Over at the Christianity Today Theology in the News column, I have published a piece entitled “Atheists in the Foxholes–as Chaplains” which draws off of the strange but true reality that atheists are currently lobbying for the right to serve as military chaplains. You can’t make this stuff up. Here is the essay’s teaser: The military chaplain
Atheist Chaplains in Foxholes? Read Post »
