Science
Finding the Center: Ecumenism and the Manhattan Declaration
It is at her centre, where her truest children dwell, that each communion is really closest to every other in spirit, if not in doctrine. And this suggests that at the centre of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of... »
On Knowing What We’re Doing: Parents, Education, and Other Things
At Mere Orthodoxy, Jeremy Mann comments on what Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye says about parental vs. public school influence on children. Educators, he states, would do well to remember that “school is not a very powerful force in the lives of many students. School for many is a span of time they... »
The Soul of Art and Life
…is hard work, discipline, self-control, and patience, but most of all love for the medium with which one is working, such that one knows it deeply and understands its every characteristic, quirk, and nuance and can employ it most effectively to bring out its most glorious potential. The more I read about the... »
The Body Worlds Exhibit
In 1975, free-thinking prodigy and anatomist Gunther von Hagens discovered a new way to preserve specimens: infuse them with plastic. His groundbreaking work, called plastination, can be seen at participating museums. Displays include imaginatively posed, complete bodies of men, women, and animals; arterial structures of various areas of the human body as... »
An Affair with Gender Differences
According to Wikipedia, “Research by Glass & Wright found that men’s extramarital relationships were more sexual and women’s more emotional. For both genders, sexual and emotional extramarital involvement occurred in those with the greatest marital dissatisfaction.” (Keep in mind that “this article’s tone or style may not be appropriate for Wikipedia,” according to the clean-up... »
See Things Simply
According to his parents, Moshe Kai Cavalin, recent graduate of East L. A. Community College with a degree in astrophysics, “is just an average kid who enjoys studying as much as he likes playing soccer, watching Jackie Chan movies, and collecting toy cars and baseball caps with tiger emblems on them.” Who is also,... »
Sex-Selective Abortion Okay in Sweden
UPDATE 5/26/09: Life Training Institute’s latest podcast deals with this very issue. Well worth the listen. (Originally posted at Talitha, Koum! on May 24, 2009) From The Washington Times, the Hot Button article last week is about Sweden’s public approval of gender abortion. In Sweden, women may legally use abortion as a method of sex selection.... »
