More than half of Protestants could not identify Martin Luther as the person who inspired the Protestant Reformation. And about four in 10 Jews did not know that Maimonides, one of the greatest rabbis and intellectuals in history, was Jewish.
Read moreHis five-year tenure as head of the Royal Society, the UK's national academy of sciences, comes to an end this year. During that time he has presided over the society's 350th anniversary celebrations and a rare "convocation" of fellows - an event that takes place just once every half-century.
Read moreGMU found a way to deprive me of legal representation by offering the law firm that was representing me a more lucrative contract. The story continues from there. Free to Think is an enjoyable book with many humorous anecdotes of my students, but has a serious side contained in the shocking personal story of censorship and subterfuge. For those interested, there are lots of appendices with supporting documents; it has been recommended by Rev. Canon George Kovoor and Dr. Norm Geisler.
Read moreIt notes, "Marriage Drops the Probability of Child Poverty by 82 percent."
That's stunning. However, 36.5 percent of families headed by a single mother were poor in 2008 while only 6.4 percent of married, two-parent families are poor.
Yet the marriage rate has plunged 51 percent since 1970.
Read moreAmerica is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Normally mild-mannered individuals caught up in the throes of this disease have been transformed into belligerent zealots, while others inclined to pacifism have taken to stockpiling weapons and practicing defensive drills.
Read moreMooney is alarmed by the pervasiveness of what he defines as scientific illiteracy among the American public. In his published writings, he associates this "illiteracy" with a "war on science" being fought by anti-evolutionists, those opposed to human embryonic stem cell research, critics of climate change, and assorted others identified as obstacles to scientific advance.
Read moreIt is a war without a name.
"The elites of this country are determined to avoid the truth," said Newt Gingrich, co-host of the film, speaking before it began. "It starts an argument as profound as the argument over Communism between 1945 and 1950 on whether there is a coherent enemy and whether there is a coherent strategy to deal with it."
Read moreThis expansion of cultural consumption is a welcome development. St. Paul exhorts us to set our minds on whatever is true, good, and beautiful, and he does not cordon off such attributes to institutions or para-church ministries. As Richard Mouw argued in his lectures on common grace, because we await the final consummation of all things, we can find goodness out in the world even while we are simultaneously dismayed at the brokenness of the church.
Read moreAlmost everyone knows how elder brother Christopher feels, which was laid out in his bestselling book God Is Not Great. In it he wrote that “religion poisons everything,” that it has been the cause of nearly every evil through to this very day, and so awful is religion that teaching it to children should be considered a form of “child abuse.”
Read moreIndeed, art and graphics have an uncanny way of vitiating the Muslim world's atmosphere. In 1994, Muslims threatened German supermodel Claudia Schiffer with death after she wore a Karl Lagerfeld-designed dress printed with a saying from the Koran.
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