RSS FeedWhat Are The Implications of Ending the Ban on Same-Sex Marriages?
Federal Judge Hinckley of Tallahassee has declared the Florida ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional since it opposes the Fourteenth Amendment on equal protection and due process. The Fourteenth Amendment reads: No state shall make or enforce any law which...
Who Are Forbidden in Scripture to Marry?
Who are forbidden in Scripture and in English Law to marry together? In my previous blogpost I referenced the Church of England Book of Common Prayer TABLE OF KINDRED AND AFFINITY which was drawn up in 1563. This is the list. A Man may not marry his...
Does Everyone Have An Equal Right To Be Married?
Are all marriages equal? Do all have a right to marriage? The courts have decided that, all being equal before the law, all have the right to marry. While denying the historic moral basis for civil marriage the courts, at the same time, have mandated that it is...
What Should Be the Relationship Between our Laws and Christian Morality?
I was asked whether Christian doctrine should shape our laws. My answer is that it used to but recently the majority decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court have declared that concern for liberty for the individual or a class of people is more important than moral...
Is Promiscuity a Characteristic of the Homosexual Lifestyle? Sex With 10,000 Men?
Robert R. Reilly in his book MAKING GAY OKAY: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything, presents results from surveys on the inherent promiscuity of active homosexuals that make it impossible for them to remain faithful to one partner in a...
How Did President Obama Change His View About Marriage?
Robert R. Reilly in his book, MAKING GAY OKAY, argues that Aristotle and the Greek philosophers taught that Nature defines not only what man is but what he should be – that is the Good. Man is made for marriage with a woman in order to provide the primary...
How Much Do You Know About the Homosexual Agenda?
Robert Reilly has written MAKING GAY OKAY: How Rationalizing Homosexual Behavior Is Changing Everything (Ignatius Press, 2014). It is probably the most influential book I have read this year because it is influencing me in how I view the current controversy on...
What Does It Mean to Follow Jesus?
Charles M. Sheldon wrote his bestseller IN HIS STEPS, in 1896. Since then it has never been out of print, and has sold more than thirty million copies. It tells the story of a wealthy and influential church in the fictional midwestern town of Raymond whose life...
How An Atheist Found God
Jennifer Fulwiler has written a memoir of her journey from atheism to Roman Catholicism in SOMETHING OTHER THAN GOD: How I Passionately Sought Happiness and Accidentally Found It (Ignatius, 2014). Raised by unbelieving parents she suffered from being one of few...
WHOLENESS
In the Gospel accounts of Jesus’ miracles of healing, the word “save” is most frequently used. The healing in these stories is always of the whole person. God’s salvation concerns the whole person. Jesus’ healing ministry is summarized: “all who touched him were...
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