Shane Morris

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  Oct 29, 2020

  Transgender: How the unthinkable became unquestionable

  The banishment of God from science, philosophy, and politics, echoing the tempter’s boast in Eden, convinced us that we don’t live according to a design. We can, rather, be our own gods. Our own designers.

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  Oct 27, 2020

  ‘Born this way’ is old science: Barrett and the truth about sexual orientation

  The word orientation suggests that sexuality is hard-wired and, according to Professor Anders, that’s just not the consensus anymore among her peers.

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  Oct 18, 2020

  Easy remedy to lack of biblical knowledge: Read the Bible

  The English language itself has been significantly shaped by Holy Scripture.

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  Oct 4, 2020

  Life on Venus: Why 'settled science' is often hot air

  Proposing and challenging theories is what science is all about.

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  Sep 17, 2020

  Self-constructed, Build-a-Bear, buffet-style Christianity is no Christianity at all

  A young progressive woman said, "I am a Christian and I don’t go to church. I am a Christian and I don’t believe the Bible is the word of God.”

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  Sep 4, 2020

  QAnon, conspiracy theories, and the Church: Faith and fear don't mix

  This particular fear-based narrative is finding fertile soil in churches. QAnon isn’t the first conspiracy theory to attract followers in certain segments of the Church.

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  Aug 17, 2020

  Americans who get news through social media are least informed, easily deceived

  A new report found that what they called “extremely online people,” meaning those who rely primarily on social media for their political news, are among the least-informed and most easily-deceived groups in America.

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  Jul 26, 2020

  New Zealand’s outrageous new law allows abortion up to birth

  New Zealand’s “loosened” laws now allow abortion on-demand, up to the moment of birth, for essentially any reason.

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  Jul 14, 2020

  ‘Cancel-culture’: Big-name liberals reject illiberalism … but why?

  To do or to say something insufficiently progressive these days risks the wrath of what’s being called “cancel-culture.”

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  Jul 10, 2020

  Culture war: Children are God's blessings, not a strategy

  A colleague shared comments he and his wife get when people find out they have seven kids: “Are they all yours?” “Were they all planned?”