The sin of Corinth.

Now I got here via Alte at TC.  Bonald is quite catholic and there are points where, as you would expect, he varies from the clear reformed teaching. But he states the current issue fairly clearly: like the ancient Corinthians, we are tempted to embrace instutitionalized, random, sex: without covenant, but with consequences. The key

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Weekly reading.

I am looking at papers which have intriguing data. Let’s start with Archives of General Psychiatry, where power and his colleagues have examined the fertility ratios for six psychiatric disorders in all people born in Sweden between 1950 and 1970. They conclude: To our knowledge, this is the first time the fitness of relatives has

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Reactions.

At this time of the year, in New Zealand, people sit exams. It is the end of the academic year: the university students have gone home (and marking that lot took a couple of days), the last of the music exams for the year have been done, and most high school students are sitting either

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