Society & Culture

“The Iowa Senate on Wednesday voted 30-20 to approve a draft of an anti-abortion bill that would ban most abortions at the first detectable fetal heartbeat.” Jurist

A basic principle of sound ethical reflection is that there is natural goodness for natural kinds, not merely conventional or willfully created “good-ness.” … A human being has a particular nature set by the human form. We have an integrated rational animal nature, a personal bodily nature. Certain things are good for our nature, and other things are not.

“While details of the proposals differ, their advocates agree the ultimate problem behind gun violence is spiritual and that believers should not allow differences on gun policy to divide them.” BPNews

The Anti-Defamation League “has reported a staggering 57 percent jump in anti-Semitic incidents in 2017. As per data, this is the maximum ever reported by the group who is noted for their specialization in Jewish civil rights.” WRN

“It asks practical questions like, can a person really not mix fabrics, as asked of them in Leviticus 19:19? Or even less-specific questions like, what happens if one’s significant other isn’t a particularly religious person?’ Fox

Rosaria Butterfield recently gave the Harold O.J. Brown Lecture at RTS Charlotte, about her journey to Christianity from an activist LGBT lifestyle in academia.

“The dispute centers on social consumption stemming from a 4/20 service where the church was cited for public consumption of marijuana and violating the Colorado Clean Indoor Air Act.” ABC

Feb. 19 was “the U.S. federal holiday known as Washington’s Birthday (not “Presidents Day—see item #1). In honor of George Washington’s birthday, here are 5 things you should know about the day set aside for our America’s premier founding father.” PowerBlog

Doug Wilson: We don’t need to do anything about the guns. But we do need to do something about all the fatherless boys who are loaded up on psychotropic drugs, administered by the school nurse, and educated by a school system that is prohibited by law from telling anybody what the meaning of life is.

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