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It’s impossible to ignore the heart-wrenching news flooding in from Israel and Palestine. Just yesterday, a Christian hospital in Gaza was destroyed, causing hundreds of deaths. The shock waves reverberate through our social media feeds, sparking outrage and fiery debates. The headlines scream of the horrors of terrorism, and we, as a faith community, echo these sentiments with fervor. But do we maintain that same moral outrage when we discuss the daily killing of unborn children in our own nation? Abortion in the United States is a thriving enterprise. Since Roe v. Wade in 1973, over 60 million babies have...

Failed Predictions: book review of 'Betrayal of Science and Reason' by Paul Ehrlich The Ehrlichs have a message--simplistic and wrong; the paranoid title of their book pretty much tells the story: They sense a conspiracy by "anti- environmentalists," who have "successfully sowed seeds of doubt among journalists, policy-makers, and the public at large about the reality and importance of such phenomena as overpopulation, global climate change, ozone depletion, and loss of biodiversity." But there is no conspiracy out there; and if journalists are listening, it may just be that they find scientific facts persuasive. Paul Ehrlich is a professor of...