Global Government resistance to Religious Expression on the Rise

Wondering if they track long term trends here...

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: They "must be met with equal and opposite moral and metaphysical force."

Insight Scoop | The Ignatius Press Blog: They "must be met with equal and opposite moral and metaphysical force."

A good call to action

Freakish Freedom

government takedown of 73,000 blogs

So much for liberalspeak "freedom of the press!"

On the Brink

On the Brink


She restates what I've heard from many circles, including the Church.

What I have not heard, though, is such commentary coming from England. At least not frequently, although I am not as widely read as I would like.

The Elephant in the Room

The Elephant in the Room

Interesting article about sexual ethics, politically driven agendas involving children, and the objective wrong in promoting a wayward homosexual lifestyle.
Building strong families in God is the only antidote.

Bishops in Iraq urge government to halt slaughter of Christians

Bishops in Iraq urge government to halt slaughter of Christians

Just Christians persecute others? What's more telling, but not in this article, is the formalized (i.e., legislative/judicial) marginalization of faith, especially in the West.
Not perhaps as sensational, but much more threatening.

Survey investigates effect of higher education on religious and moral beliefs

Survey investigates effect of higher education on religious and moral beliefs

For my college history teacher: religion irrelevant, yet science and faith not contradictory? Isn't that a contradictory statement?

Who were the Founders?

Funny...I never thought of the Founders as "warm Deists"



http://insightscoop.typepad.com/2004/2010/02/the-founders-how-christian-were-they.html

The First Vocation Crisis

What are the consequences of this?

The New Chuch

http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/7942/

Gaia as the new Church... as much as Robertson goes off like a loose-cannon, the author does bring up some good ideas...

Closer To Truth

Closer To Truth

I love Richard Swinburne.

Making Free Speech a Hate Crime

Making Free Speech a Hate Crime

Interesting point in the debate re: religious conscience vs. plurality.

Excerpts from Truth and Tolerance

Excerpts from Truth and Tolerance

From Pope Benedict XVI...his logic is so clear and precise.  Challenge yourself by giving it a read.

Great article about the "Intolerance of Tolerance"

http://www.firstthings.com/article/2009/07/intolerant-tolerance

It's funny how we often really do become the thing we hate: liberalism recognizes only the authority of the state. Indeed, it defends it irrationally, as we all must believe in something greater than ourselves.

Just ask those living under Stalin or Hitler just how "tolerant" these social engineering catastrophes were.  As we all know, dissent was honored and considered part of the normal fabric of society.

Our Enslavement to Freedom

Our Enslavement to "Freedom"

Great read...post-modern reconstructions of ethics are ultimately self-defeating.

The Illusion of Freedom Separated from Moral Virtue

The Illusion of Freedom Separated from Moral Virtue


Just about sez it all...

Religion & Socialism

Great article about the death of spirituality in modern times.  Peter Kreeft is one of my favorite authors.

http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2009/pkreeft_darkness_sept09.asp

The Efficacy of Early Intervention Programs: A Meta-Analysis

The Efficacy of Early Intervention Programs: A Meta-Analysis

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The good kind of judicial activism.

The good kind of judicial activism.

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