Breadwinner moms: What is the media celebrating?
According to Pew, fully 40 percent of American households with kids under the age of 18 have a mom who is either the sole or primary income-earner.
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Recent Catholic Commentary
The Big Bang Theory star Mayim Bialik champions modesty in sex-obsessed Hollywood
I’m shallow and materialistic. I admire some movie stars for how they look and how I think that I measure up to them has an effect on me. I thought I’d get that out of the way straight off. I go to the gym and I am careful about my diet, and it’s not just about my health. I’m not immune to the effects of celebrity culture. I wish I were. I was raised in the 70s when the television celebrity culture was really getting going, and women started turning emulating movie and TV stars into a lifestyle. One of […]
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Is assisted suicide a turn-on for some people?
Does assisting suicide have a sexual–or perhaps better stated, sensual–component for some people? I have thought it might ever since reading A Chosen Death by assisted suicide advocate Dr. Lonnie Shavelson. Shavelson witnessed Sarah, described as a Hemlock Society leader, murdering “Gene,” who changed his mind before dying, only to have Sarah put a plastic bag over his head. Demonstrating Shavelson’s moral hollowness, he not only didn’t stop the woman from killing Gene, but didn’t report the case to the police. But this is the part of Shavelson’s account I want to focus on for the moment. Why does Sarah do it? He quotes her waxing […]
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The importance of language in changing the culture
As cultural values in the U.S. and elsewhere have decayed, the language used to express and defend those values has become foreign to many whom we are trying to reach.
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Group of Christian leaders step forward to tell of battles with same-sex attraction
After Steve Chalke and Rob Bell joined the ‘Accepting Evangelicals’ Group in affirming faithful same-sex erotic relationships earlier this year a new group of ‘post-gay’ evangelical Christian leaders has emerged. Their testimonies are clear, powerful, hugely encouraging and most welcome at a time when many young evangelicals are genuinely confused about the issue. These are men in pastoral ministry who admit to feelings of same sex attraction but who also see the Bible’s prohibitions on same-sex relationships as non-negotiable. The core of this new group, recently interviewed by Christianity magazine, are Sam Alberry, a church leader in Maidenhead, Sean Doherty, a tutor at St Mellitus College, […]
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NCIS’s Detective Deeks: Son’s birth was ‘insanely beautiful’ experience
He joins a slew of famous men and women who recognize just how amazing a new child is.
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Couple adopts triplets; finds out a week later they’re expecting twins!
Sarah summed it all up by saying, 'God has a great sense of humor!'
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Nigerian state legalizes abortion in ‘anti-violence’ bill
In this little known state in Africa, the right to abortion has been signed into law without public notice and without anybody finding out about it.
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Sex sleepovers for teens: they’ve sunk to a new low
When teens are sexually active, they need to rely on Planned Parenthood’s services, including their lucrative abortion “services.”
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Belgian doctors looking for disabled patients to be euthanized, donate organs
It’s sackcloth and ashes time. Belgium is really gearing up its euthanasia followed by organ harvesting regime–and apparently the transplant medical community has no moral qualms. In fact, it has become so morally ho-hum, that it was the subject of discussion at the 21st European Conference on General Thoracic Surgery held in the UK in May. It’s all just peachy keen. From the Abstract (0-099) of “Lung Transplantation with Grafts Recovered From Euthanasia Donors: January 2007 and December 2012, 47/350 (13.4%) patients received pulmonary grafts from controlled DCDs [donation after cardiac death], including 6 (1.7%) after euthanasia in accordance with state legislation and […]
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