The Humanitas Forum

“In nothing has the Church so lost her hold on reality as in her failure to understand and respect the secular vocation. She has allowed work and religion to become separate departments, and is astonished to find that, as a …

On the theology, the technology, and the ethics of today’s reproductive technologies, few books can compare with Oliver O’Donovan’s Begotten or Made?  Even in 1984 he anticipated the current situation in parts of the assisted reproduction arena, where there …

The new reproductive technologies produce a host of profound moral questions, as illustrated in the posts from the two previous days.  For a thorough survey of assisted reproduction from an evangelical Christian perspective, see Outside the Womb: The Ethics of Reproductive …

In a cartoon, a kindly woman and a young child are standing in front of six people.  The woman is telling the child, “This is your intended mother, this is your intended father, this is your egg donor, this …

Money is obviously the common denominator in the surrogacy industry.  And it is an industry, a global industry that connects the wealthy who have money with the poor who are willing to rent their wombs as a source of …

“[T]he need for creed will have its way, even if the creed is to have no creed,” writes Curtis Freeman.

To make his point, he tells of a boy who was riding with a Catholic priest.

A sign in …

‘All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’  ~  Blaise Pascal

Several comments in the article quoted in the previous post remind of Pascal’s famous quote about the miseries of not being …

Texting, e-mail and posting promote a “flight from conversation.”

“We’re always communicating,” yet “we’ve sacrificed conversation for mere connection.”

These observations come from Sherry Turkle, a psychologist and M.I.T professor, who has spent the past 15 years studying the technologies …

Push back against the age as hard as it pushes against you. What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

~ Flannery O’Connor

The …

American Christianity refuses to grow up.  “We’re all adolescents now!”

Beginning in the 1930s and ‘40s, a quiet revolution began in American churches.  It occurred in all segments of Christianity, but it has been most notably “successful” in the evangelical …