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Essays
- A Catholic “Battle Plan” for the 21st Century Culture War
- A Conversation with an Atheist
- A Stem Cell Primer
- An Analysis of Homer Simpson and Stephen Jay Gould
- Bodies Without Souls
- Brave New Genetic World
- Business" and "Ethics":Can These Terms Be Used in the Same Title?
- CBHD: Disapointed in Bush's announcement to allow funding for limitied embryonic stem cell research
- Cell Out
- Cohabitation Plagues Christians, Too
- Culture of Vice
- Death Most Unnecessary
- Does Christianity require the concept of the "Trinity"?
- Ethically Wrong Treatment of the Tiniest of Humans
- Evidence For Design In The Universe
- Greed or Justice?
- How America Went Gay
- Intelligent Design as a Theory of Information
- Marriage Reminders
- Press Release on Stem Cell Research
- Proof's for God
- Psychotherapy for the "Gay" Teenager
- Public Policy Challenges in the Biotech Century
- Scientist Says Mind Continues After Brain Dies
- Stem Cell Policy Challenged
- Stem Cell: Bush Trip
- The "By-Line" of God
- The Act of Creation
- The Barren Gamble of Same-Sex Unions: The Downside of Diluting Marriage Statutes
- The Duties Of Parents For Their Children
- The Ethicist's New Clothes
- The Holy Spirit and/or Trinitarianism
- The Incompleteness of Scientific Naturalism
- The President Should Have Consulted Solomon
- The Special Duties Of Children And Youth Towards God
- The Special Duties Of Children Towards Their Parents
- The Teleological Argument and the Anthropic Principal
- The Truth About Stem Cells: An interview with Dr. David Prentice
- Theology and The Blessed Trinity
- What every theologian should know about creation, evolution and design
- When Boys Won't Be Boys: Childhood Gender Identity Disorder
- Why Marriages Fail
- Why Naturalism is an Assumption Necessary for Doing Science
- Window to Creation
- “Stem of the Stem Cell Controversy”
Abortion
- Abortion and the Church Fathers: Tertullian (c. 160 - 240)
- Abortion" The Issue That Wont Go Away
- Abortion: A Failure to Communicate
- Abortionists Withheld Information on Abortion Risks
- An Argument Against Abortion
- Arguments Against Abortion
- Church Fathers on Abortion
- Church Fathers on Abortion: Basil (c. 329-379)
- Church Fathers on Abortion: Eusebius (260-340)
- Church Fathers on Abortion: Justinian (527-565)
- Church Fathers on Abortion:Jerome (347-420)
- Confessions of an Ex-Abortionist
- How can abortion increase the risk of breast cancer?
- Part 2: The Tasks of Healing
- Part 3: The Second Victims of Abortion
- Part 4: Procedural Risks & Complications
- Partial Birth Abortion
- Physical and Psychological Complications of Abortion
- Priests for Life Condemns All Violence
- The Didache
- The Many Reasons Why FDA Should Not Have Approved RU-486
- Time to make the case clearly
- What is partial-birth abortion?
Abstinence and Chastity
- "Sexual Wisdom" - a summary
- Banishing Unchaste Thoughts the Healthy Way
- Real Love is Abstinence
- Subversive Virginity
- The Latest Skirmish in the Condom Wars
- The Neglected Heart: The Emotional Dangers of Premature Sexual Involvement
Adultery
Allo
Apologetics
- A (Not So) Brief Defense of Christianity
- A New Evangelization in a New Millennium: A Call for a New Apologetics
- Answering Objections Under Attack
- Apologetics Dialogue on Absolute Truth
- Apologetics Without Apology
- Apologetics in Practice (Part 1)
- Apologetics in Practice (Part 2)
- Common Ground in the Uncommon Apologetic of Chesterton and Lewis
- Jonathan Edwards: Reformed Apologist
- Soren Kierkegaard and the Supremacy of Faith
- The Apologetics of Chesterton and Lewis In a World Marked by Disbelief
- The Problem of Evil (Part 1)
- Types of Apologetics
- Why I Believe in God
Apostolic
Apostolicity
Archeology
Artifacts Icons and Relics
- Extraordinary Evidence About Jesus in the Dead Sea Scrolls
- Natural Factors Affecting the Apparent Radiocarbon Age of Textiles
- Shroud of Turin, a New Millenial View
- Tests for Blood on Shroud of Turin
Ascension
Astronomy Cosmology Astrophysics
- "God and the Initial Cosmological Singularity: A Reply to Quentin Smith."
- A Day Without Yesterday
- Are We Alone in the Universe?
- Beyond the Death of God
- Biggest die-off linked to deep impact
- Billions of Planets, But Only One Earth
- Design Evidences in the Cosmos
- Galactic Habitable Zones
- New Scientific Study Begs the Philosophical Question, "Who's the tailor?"
- Quantum Mechanics, a Modern Goliath
- The Universe In Depth: Amazing Space Study: Matter Tougher Than Antimatter
- UFO Theories
Astronomy, Cosmology
Atonement Crucifixion
- THE CRUCIFIXION: from "Jesus Rediscovered"
- The Legal and Medical Aspects of the Trial and Death of Christ
Atonement and Crucifixion
Biblical Inspiration and Authority
Biomedical Technology Genomics and Proteonomics
Capital Punishment
Church Fathers
Cloning and Embryo Research
- Churches Assail German Vote on Embryo Imports
- Cloning and Genetics: Brave New World Closes In
- Cloning and Stem Cell Research Wrong Motives on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- Cloning at the Crossroads of Humankind
- Do Human Embryos and Human Clones have Souls?
- Human Cloning
- Human Cloning Prohibition Fact Sheet
- Human Cloning is Here
- Human Embryo Cloning Gets Go-Ahead in Britain
- Pope calls for Legal Recognition of Human Embryo
- Therapuetic Cloning, The Great Divide in the International Community
Contemporary
Contraception
Creation/ Intelligent Design
Devotion
Divorce and Annulment
Doctrinal Differences
Embryo Adoption
Eschatology
Euthanasia
- A Defense of Genocide
- Eugenics to Euthanasia
- Euthanasia Explained
- Some Aspects of the Euthanasia Debate
- The Funny Lady Is Dead Serious: The Real Risks of a Too-Easy Exit
- The Legalization of Euthanasia
Evangelization
Evolution
- A Short Critique of Darwinism
- Ernst Haeckel's Sleight of Hand Revealed
- Evolution
- Homology:A Concept in Crisis
- Humani Generis
- Naturalism and Theistic Evolution are Incompatible
- News and Commentary
- Ohio Tackles Evolution Controversy
- The Peppered Moths Icons
- Why Evolutionary AlgorithmsCannot Generate Specified Complexity
Faith
Faith Reason
- Confident Belief: What Does It Mean To Know Truth?
- Faith and Reason:Friends or Foes?
- Fides et Ratio (Faith and Reason)
- Knowing the "Super-Natural" (Part 1)
- The Need to Read: Francis Schaeffer
- The Problem of Knowing the "Super-Natural" (Part 3)
- Truth Journal: Theism, Atheism, and Rationality
- Why Isn't the Evidence Clearer?
Faith Science
Genesis Issues
Geology
Hinduism
Infanticide
Islam
Mariology
- Mary, Mother of God and Queen of Heaven
- The Key to Understanding Mary
- The gospel of the birth of Mary
Miracles
- Miracles and Modern Scientific Thought
- The Problem Of Miracles
- The Problem Of Miracles: A Historical And Philosophical Perspective
Philosophy
- A Brief Lexicon of Some Commonly Used Philosophical Terms
- Beware of Philosophy!
- Ethics: Pick or Choose?
- First Principles
- No Cure for the Fall
Physics
Political Structures and Culture
- Culture War
- Religious Conservatives in American Politics, 1980-2000: an Assessment
- Vindicating John Locke, How a 17th Century "Liberal" was really a Social Conservative
Pornography
- "Sexy" Fashions?...What Do Men Think?
- Child Porn Linked to Rape, Murder Suspects
- Surveys Find Online Sex Addiction a Growing Problem
Prayers & Creeds
- The Apostles Creed:
- The Athanasian Creed
- The Definition of the Council of Chalcedon(451 A.D)
- The Lords Prayer
- The Nicene Creed:
Proofs for
Purgatory
Resurrection
- "The Guard at the Tomb." New Testament Studies 30 (1984): 273-81
- Contemporary Scholarship and the Historical Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ
- Evidence For The Resurrection Of Christ: A Challenge for Skeptics
- Evidence for the Resurrection
- The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus{1}
- The Desciples Inspection of the Empty Tomb
Salvation Faith and Grace
Sanctity of Life
- A Profound Conversation on Life
- Excerpt from…The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles
- President Bush on Embryonic Stem Cells
- Reverse the Question