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Child Sexbots and Dolls Probably Aren’t the Cure for Pedophilia 0
- Family
- January 9, 2018
Shin Takagi is a pedophile. He has never acted on his impulses, he told the Atlantic in a recent interview, but is attracted to children. This is a problem for Takagi. After reading the article, one senses that he feels an intense desire for minors but also believes children should be protected from people like
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How a Green Day Song Can Help us Understand the Christian Festival Epiphany 0
- Entertainment
- January 8, 2018
“Religion is a bunch of bullshit,” Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said in a 2010 interview with vocal atheist Bill Maher. If you’re not familiar with Green Day, they’re the band that taught you to stick it to the man if you came of age in the late 90s and early 2000s. In sixth
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The Instant Pot Can Teach Us a Lot About Capitalism (and the Key to Entrepreneurial Success)0
- Economics
- January 8, 2018
You don’t have to search far to read claims that capitalism is centered on greed and selfishness. For some, the assertion seems self-evident as they read, for example, stories of pharmaceutical companies dramatically increasing the price of important drugs. Those who hold a “capitalists are greedy” usually belief fail to distinguish between crony capitalists—who make
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Everything You Know About the Gospel of Paul is Probably Wrong 0
- History
- January 8, 2018
This past year, I burdened the English-speaking world with my very own translation of the New Testament – a project that I undertook at the behest of my editor at Yale University Press, but that I agreed to almost in the instant that it was proposed. I had long contemplated attempting a ‘subversively literal’ rendering
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Avoiding Gluten isn’t Healthy if you don’t Have Coeliac Disease 0
- Science
- January 8, 2018
Coeliac disease, an allergy to gluten that causes damage to the intestine, affects 1% of the population. But more than ten times this number, or around 11% of the population, follows a gluten-free diet by choice, and up to 30% of people in the United States try to reduce their gluten intake. Gluten-free foods are
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This Week I Was Denied a Service Because of the Company’s Values—And I’m Okay With That 2
- Philosophy
- January 8, 2018
This week I was denied a service because the company’s values are at odds with the values that Alliance Defending Freedom stands for—values I personally hold. And guess what? I’m okay with that. Allow me to explain. As a writer, I’m always looking to improve my skills. And working for a no-debt ministry like Alliance
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