It’s hard to believe that hitting kids in school is still allowed, but I guess when you’re into hitting defenseless children it’s hard to give up. A new bill hopes to ban it:
Legislation to ban corporal punishment in most public and private schools was introduced in Congress Tuesday.
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) introduced the “Ending Corporal [...]
Do you think it’s okay for mothers to work full-time outside of the home? According to John Piper, “it can be” but it’s a complex issue:
Is it biblically acceptable for a mother to hold a full time job outside of the home?
It can be. It is like the alcohol question, it can be.
Having said it can be, I [...]
If God existed and was “all-powerful,” what actions/events should he be held morally accountable for?
(Note: Your answers may or may not be used in a top-secret art project…)
This video is from The Life You Can Save (a charity by Peter Singer), and I found it pretty compelling. We really need to do more to help the suffering of other human beings.
Let’s have a round of applause for the supporters in the Episcopal Church for ordaining the first openly lesbian bishop:
Despite objections from conservative Anglicans, the Episcopal Church will ordain its first openly lesbian bishop Saturday.
The Rev. Mary Glasspool, 56, becomes bishop surrounded by controversy.
Conservative factions in the Anglican Communion, a 77-million member denomination worldwide, have [...]
A quick history of the Catholic Church’s (mis)handling of child abuse:
(From ABC’s Hungry Beast…. which is a really weird name, btw.)
Scientists have shown “they can change people’s moral judgements by disrupting a specific area of the brain with magnetic pulses”:
They identified a region of the brain just above and behind the right ear which appears to control morality.
And by using magnetic pulses to block cell activity they impaired volunteers’ notion of right and wrong. [...]
The [...]
Question of the Day:
Is capital punishment ethical?
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