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Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2009
For Father Flynn, the Roman Catholic priest character in the movie Doubt, doubt is a powerful and sustaining bond, as powerful as certainty. For President Obama, doubt keeps us humble and compels us to remain open-minded, rational, and un-parochial (read: not clinging too tightly to our sectarian or religious beliefs) as we do good for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2009
Every now and then one comes across an article like this one from USA Today, in which the embryonic stem cell – tumor connection is brought to light: ‘The link between stem and tumor cells in science is a very old one,’ says Paul Knoepfler of the University of California Davis School of Medicine in [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 18th, 2009
Chuck Donovan over at the Family Research Council’s blog offers some first impressions on President Obama’s speech at Notre Dame yesterday. Here’s a snippet: [President Obama's speech] was un-Barackesque in one sense – he came down from Olympus, where pay grades are seldom referred to at all, and made it plain that on the issue [...]
The Reverend Robert C. Baker, B.B.A, M.Div., M.S., is an ordained pastor in The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod, and serves as an adjunct professor of philosophy at Lindenwood University's Belleville, IL campus. He is general editor of Natural Law: A Lutheran Reappraisal (CPH, 2011), author of "Natural Law, Human Sexuality, and Forde's 'Acid Test'" appearing in that volume, is the author of What Happened To Merry Christmas?, and has authored or edited numerous Bible studies and books.
