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First printed on AOL’s PoliticsDaily.com The political debate on abortion has for several decades focused on the wrong moral question: Does life begin at conception? Those who believe it does, oppose abortion. Those who don’t, or think the question is unanswerable, believe the pregnant woman should make that choice. Yet consider this statistical couplet. According…

Virginia Williams asks for your prayers:virginia williams financially worried and cried out I am the only one in my household working at the moment. I dont know if I will have enough money to pay our bills and buy food tommorow. I am so scared, my husband has no idea, what is going on, I…

From the Senate report on torture: “One Muslim inmate was allegedly forced to eat pork, had liquor forced down his throat and told to thank Jesus that he was alive. He recounted in broken English: ”They stripped me naked, they asked me, ‘Do you pray to Allah?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ They said ‘F – –…

Most attention these days has focused on revelations that administration officials sanctioned torture for “high value” Al Qaeda operatives. That’s important but another moral issue is as crucial, and in some ways more morally clear-cut: As part of the war on terror, the U.S. government routinely detained people for years without knowing if they were…

A prayer circle for Kim Caserta: “A single mother has been looking for a job for nine months, just got her first interview the other day, thought the interview went well, she really wants this position as an ultrasound tech. Please pray long and hard she really deserves this job.” Add your thoughts to the…

Immigrants who are arrested for being here illegally sometimes lose their children as a result. The New York Times profiles the case of Encarnación Bail Romero who was arrested as part of a raid of a poultry processing plant in Butterfield, Missouri. Because she had false identification, she was sentenced to prison. And because she…

A quick experiment. Please read the text block below and then say out loud what it says: . The illusion of of ‘seeing’ Did you say it out loud? Ok. When Alva Noe, a professor of philosophy at University of California at Berkeley, asked someone in our group at the Templeton-Cambridge course on science and…

Keith Ward, an esteemed professor of divinity at Oxford University, explained Sunday that the view of nearly all Christian leaders, writers and theologians from the time of Jesus until the 18th century was that God is timeless and spaceless. Got it. I’ve heard that before and, though somewhat unfathomable, I thought I understood the consequences.…
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