Quotes Against Abortion
Canada does not have a law on the books regulating abortion, we are utterly unlike any other country in the Western world in this regard. And this to our shame. This week has seen a debate in the...
View ArticleInterlude
If you have a cognitive surplus and you want to be rid of it, let me commend parenting to you as a solution. At least that’s my story as to why I can’t find my way to posting on here as often as I’d...
View ArticleMarriage in Baptist Thought
Southern Seminary’s The Journal of Discipleship & Family Ministry‘s new issue, dedicated to the theme of marriage, will be out soon. In it they have kindly printed an article co-written by Michael...
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From The Vault
I was reading Brooks’ recent post on sexuality and the biblical rules around it and it reminded me of this post I did way back in 2008 on the matter of monogamy in the Bible. A sampling: [I]s...
View ArticleSed Contra
Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast...
View ArticleAndrew Sullivan Vs. Douglas Wilson
Here’s a little debate they had with Peter Hitchens as moderator: As for me, I think that the what carried the day for Sullivan was what I have seen here in Canada, there has been widespread access to...
View ArticleOne Man’s “Free Market” Is Another’s “Consumerism”
The possibility that the US may soon, at a federal level, do what several states, Canada, and a number other countries have already done vis-a-vis legalizing same sex marriage has caused any number of...
View ArticleSavage Vs. Brown On Gay Marriage
I had read this dining room debate was going to happen, but then I didn’t hear anything about it for a long time, and then this footage of the whole thing came up on some random YouTube feed and I...
View ArticleThe State Of Marriage Debates In The Public Discourse
This is from Australia and I think sometimes it’s worth seeing how this debate is playing out around the industrialized English-speaking world, as it removes it a tiny bit from the personalities and...
View ArticleMillennials and Civil Society
A recent report by the Pew Research Center on millennials gives some worrying news: The portrait painted of Millennial Americans by the Pew Research Center in its new report Millennials in Adulthood is...
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