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England’s leading rabbi, on religion and science

    “Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.” Lord Jonathan Sacks    

More on “Emotional Problems among Children with Same-Sex Parents”

    I posted an item yesterday regarding a paper entitled “Emotional Problems among Children with Same-Sex Parents: Difference by Definition.”   Here’s an accessible summary of the thesis of the paper:   http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/v...   I’ve been told by an anonymous supporter of gay marriage that the paper is riddled with methodological errors and incompetence so [Read More...]

Do you think you’re too ordinary to be great?

    “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.” George Washington Carver (1864-1943)    

New Testament 74

    Matthew 7:21-23 Compare Luke 6:46; 13:25-27   I believe that I’ve said it before, but, even if I have, I’ll say it here again:   A reader would be extremely hard-pressed to construct a case for the doctrine of salvation by grace alone, without works, from the four New Testament gospels (which is [Read More...]

“Emotional Problems among Children with Same-Sex Parents: Difference by Definition”

    http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf...   Some will, I’m sure, now feel an imperative need to pronounce Donald Paul Sullins a hate-filled and incompetent pseudo-scholar, despite his apparently impeccable academic credentials.  (Some will also feel duty-bound to denounce me along similar lines, of course, for the sheer act of posting this link.  But that’s scarcely news.)   [Read More...]

A study of the relationship between religious involvement and education

    Here’s a BYU student journalist’s account of a recent study conducted by two respected LDS sociologists:   http://universe.byu.edu/2015/02/10/by...    

“Bakers Who Declined Service to Same-Sex Couple Face $150,000 Fine”

    http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/09/bak...    

A pair of Muslim denunciations of ISIS, and a memorial at BYU

    As I’ve observed, everywhere I do I’m inevitably asked why Muslims don’t condemn terrorism undertaken in the name of Islam.   Part of my invariable answer is that they do.   Here are a couple of relatively recent examples that I’ve been intending to post:   “Grand Mufti: Jordanian pilot’s murder not part [Read More...]

“On submitting my will to God’s”

    A very nice blog entry on what obedience means to one believing Latter-day Saint:   https://greatgourdini.wordpress.com/2...    

Karl Barth, on science and religion

    We act unbelievingly and disobediently when we despise or mistrust reasonable scientific inquiry or when we absolutize its methods and results, thus evading God’s truth and our responsibility to him. We act unbelievingly and disobediently when, for whatever motive, we distort, falsify, or suppress the facts about our life in nature and history. [Read More...]