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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Barack Obama: The Populist Professor?

Friday, January 29, 2010

Last night’s State of the Union address changed nothing, aside from Chris Matthews’ eyesight, which I trust has returned to normal.  President Obama is still committed to the same unpopular policies that have left him with a dropping approval rating, and he “won’t quit”.
Neither will Republicans, despite-or perhaps because of-the verbal reprimand they received last [...]

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Global Warming Facts, Fiction, and Freedom

Monday, January 25, 2010

Global warming might be real, but that doesn’t mean you have to do anything about it.  If fact, if your actions are motivated by guilt or fear, Katharine Hayhoe and Andrew Farley would rather you didn’t act at all.
Hayhoe and Farley are the authors of A Climate For Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions.  [...]

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Introverts in the Church: Ministering to People Who Hate Parties

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Hello, my name is Rachel, and I am an introvert.
There are more of us than you might think. In fact, it’s thought that we are the majority with 50.7 % of the population.  And we don’t all fit the awkward-wallflower stereotype; introversion and extroversion indicate whether a person is sapped or energized by social interaction, [...]

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God’s Battalions: Those Other Caped Crusaders

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Remember the days just after 9/11 when many claimed the West was finally paying for its crimes against Muslims during the Crusades?  They were wrong - and they weren’t the first to misunderstand what happened during the years of fighting between Christian Crusaders and Muslim soldiers.
Rodney Stark’s newest book, God’s Battalions: The Case for the [...]

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Political Science: BPA and the FDA

Thursday, January 7, 2010

The FDA will soon release its latest findings on the plastic-strengthening chemical, bisphenol A (BPA).  As I’ve written before, BPA’s supposed health risks have been highly publicized to the benefit of both businessmen and politicians-so much to their benefit, in fact, that it would be hard to believe all the rumors even if the FDA, [...]

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