abortion: complex or painstakingly simple?

Our President recently said at his address to the graduating class at Notre Dame,
“Maybe we won’t agree on abortion, but we can still agree that this heart-wrenching decision for any woman is not made casually, it has both moral and spiritual dimensions.  
So let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions, [...]

news and reviews 4/6/09

Adam Lambert favored to win Idol
I’ll say this.  I’m a Kris fan.  I can’t remember his last name at the moment, but you know the guy who plays guitar and has a crooked mouth when he hits the big notes?  I like his arrangements and think he’s very talented (plays piano and guitar).  Lambert weirds [...]

news and reviews 3/21

Oversight Leads to Envy 
No one needs incentive to sin.  It comes naturally.  Yet, it seems that we are being given plenty of envy incentive nowadays with the oversight of executive pay for banks and wall street firms.  As the gov’t increases “oversight” and makes sure to trumpet and disdain the amount of money execs make, [...]

ageism: a new word for an old problem

I’ve got age on my mind.  
Here are some contributing factors: yesterday was my 28th birthday; Tim Challies posted on ageism; I recently met some delightful elderly ladies at church that made me reflect on what it would be like to have outlived your husband and have grown children far-away.
So here are my raw 28-year-old [...]

the designer baby boondoggle

A fertility clinic in LA has finally gone all the way.  
They are now offering “designer babies,” meaning their clients can request certain traits for their babies like dark skin or blue eyes.  The clinic has not yet delivered on this promise, but is offering it nonetheless. 
I get the feeling that when people hear the [...]

news and reviews

I pay attention to the news and other stuff.
Here’s my take on some news and stuff that I find interesting.  Here we go:
Is Smoking a Sin?
Tim Challies writes a thought-provoking piece on the now taboo behavior for Christians of smoking.  My two cents: smoking is not inherently sinful.  It is sinful inasmuch as it draws [...]

younger brother prodigals, older brother judgment and the third way

At Between Two Worlds, Justin Taylor points to this great article by Marvin Olasky from World magazine.
Olasky has some great insights into the younger brother/older brother phenomena, as it touches the Christian and secular world.  He says “We all know of the younger brother’s libertine living.”  But he describes the older brother’s problem as more [...]

don’t worry! we still have TV!

The $787 billion dollar stimulus bill has passed the House with zero support from Republicans and seven Democrats opposing it.  
Is it just me, or is anyone else wondering why the Republicans didn’t all oppose the original stimulus that Bush put forth?  I, for one, think both bills were (are) bad news.  I just can’t [...]

abortion, race and the deceit of intentions

I ran across this article from 2006 that sheds a lot of light on our human “intentions” to do good.  We delude ourselves with claims for good intentions, even when evil results from them.  
In this story, the Dutch PM got his nose out of joint after a high European official likened the Dutch policy [...]

hoping for virtue and failure

I have heard Christians say that they want the best for President Obama; they hope he is very successful as President and want to support him and give him a chance.  
I can’t (totally) agree with that.  
I certainly can agree to wanting the best for him.  But, I believe the best thing for him [...]