Though previous researches have found links between religious social support and its positive impact on a patient’s rehabilitation, this particular research firmly indicates a connection between personal religious belief and positive health outcomes Mere “positive thinking” is not enough. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims who believe they are close to a “higher power” report better... Continue Reading

Religious exemption language that was part of a successful “gay marriage” bill in New York addresses a handful of religious liberty concerns but ignores a large number of other religious conflicts, says an attorney familiar with the issue. The religious exemption language was critical to getting a handful of Republican senators — four total —... Continue Reading

With pro-life Gov. Scott Walker signing the state budget into law in Wisconsin, the Badger State becomes the fourth to cut funding for the Planned Parenthood abortion business — following decisions by Indiana, North Carolina and Kansas to revoked funding entirely. The legislation redirects $1 million in state and federal family planning funds away from... Continue Reading

Why is our culture fascinated with vampires, and how has that fascination changed over time? Carissa Smith recently conducted an email interview with Susannah Clements (Associate Professor of English and Chair of the Department of Languages and Literature at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va), author of The Vampire Defanged: How the Embodiment of Evil... Continue Reading

Evangelicals in the U.K. have rebuked comments made by the Chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Britain for accusing evangelical Christians of wanting to “have a fight,” and that they “choose sexual orientation as the ground to fight” out of political motivation. In an interview published Sunday, Trevor Phillips angered Christians by... Continue Reading

There are values higher than profit and market success, among which is the preeminent value of life itself. What we propose, then, is a free economy that puts the human person at the center of economic actions because the human person is the source of all economic initiative. What devalues human life? Our times are... Continue Reading

Fathers with a college education are more likely to get married, have better jobs, and spend more time with their children, a recent Pew study reported. Only 13 percent of fathers with at least a bachelor’s degree had children outside marriage, compared with 51 percent of those with high school diplomas and 65 percent of... Continue Reading

{T}he fight over Planned Parenthood has always been over the fact that in most places it simultaneously offers highly popular services — family planning and preventive care — and a far more controversial one — abortion — under the same banner… And then there were three. The North Carolina Legislature overrode a veto by Democratic... Continue Reading

I do want to build a strong faith in my kids, but I want them to test that faith and make it their own long before they leave home. For this reason, even though I homeschool partly out of a desire to minimize negative influences, my protection will decrease, and their freedom will increase, as... Continue Reading

“I think that switching to single-sex dorms will not necessarily remove or lessen the opportunity for binge drinking and premarital sex (most students party off-campus), but I think it will have a large impact in working to subtly reinforce the idea that students at Catholic University are expected to uphold a higher standard and that... Continue Reading