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Do Space Aliens Need Baptism? The View From Gliese 581g

By Paul Wallace

…nd outer edges, respectively. (If these planets’ atmospheres had evolved differently, they too would be able to support liquid water.) The search for life on other planets has been ongoing for a long time, starting with the founding of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in 1959. Today, SETI is funded by private money and NASA funds an extensive Astrobiology research program. In its 2008 Roadmap, this program states the f…

New Study Touts Success of “Praying Away the Gay”

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…ientation change through involvement in a variety of Christian ministries affiliated with Exodus International. The results show change to be possible for some, and the attempt not harmful on average. These results stand in tension with the supposed professional consensus…” Both researchers are from conservative Christian colleges, which, of course, make the research suspect. But, as Timothy Kincaid over at Box Turtle Bulletin points out, Yarhouse…

What Pence and Kaine Reveal About Divides in Catholicism

By Patricia Miller

…ll Clinton’s Democratic National Convention, and allegedly because of his efforts to restrict abortion in Pennsylvania. This sense of ideological homelessness is arguably responsible for the loss of distinctive Catholic identity among politicians voters—and for division within the Church itself. Catholicism didn’t become less “distinctive”—in terms of having the coherent political identity Catholics had in the days of JFK—because the political sys…