IT'S TRUE! Excerpt: Since it debuted six years ago, the Sci Fi drama about a rag-tag space fleet has offered challenging fictional depictions of problems afflicting our planet in the here and now. And now a discussion of how those very issues have been handled on the show will take place at the ...

For a very long time I have held what might be termed the Special Theory of Media Incompetence, which is: The mainstream newsmedia is spectacularly incompetent when reporting stories concerning religion, morality, etc. It's hard to read a story about one of these subjects in the mainstream media...

The final ten episodes of Battlestar Galactica start airing this Friday, and the producers plan to answer a bunch of questions, some of which have been around since the beginning of the show and some of which were only recently introduced: What happened to Earth? What are the Virtual "Head"...

A reader writes: This is regarding "looking at girls". I am very clear that obviously pornography is a grave matter. I also am clear that deliberately engaging in lustful thoughts, lustful desires, or trying to arouse yourself (outside marriage) with full knowledge and full consent is also...

Since 1963 there has been a growing debate in Protestant circles regarding the way in which St. Paul's teachings--particularly regarding justification--are to be understood. A significant number of authors, including Kirster Stendahl, E. P. Sanders, James Dunn, and N. T. Wright, have concluded t...

I can't respond to everything that the reader writes (for space reasons; the post would get way too long for its own good), but a reader in the combox down yonder writes: Since I would probably be the only one to speak in the man's [PZ Myer's] defense, I feel I must do so. I would like to inquire if...

Longtime readers of this blog may know that I don't like the word "cult," at least as it is commonly used (i.e., bad religious group). The reason that I don't like it is that, although every "cult researcher" will try to formulate a definition of what a cult is, these definitions...

Below is an hour-long video interview with Justice Antonin Scalia which was aired on the Charlie Rose Show. Charlie Rose comes across at numerous points not as a serious journalist as a hard leftie who thinks he's a serious journalist and who insists on viewing every issue through an ideological len...

When is a marriage sacramental? This is a question that is subject to significant confusion. For a start, some individuals use the word "sacramental" when they mean "valid." In other words, they are under the impression that any marriage that is not sacramental is invalid. This i...

I want to thank Mark Shea both for calling my attention to a set of loony criticisms being made against me and for defending me against said loony criticisms. GET THE STORY. Here's a key excerpt from Mark's blog: One reader, for instance, prophesies (on the basis of nothing whatsoever) Jimmy Akin's ...