by jstewardfree | Jun 11, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | Every spring for the past 27 years, writers and other intellectuals have gathered in the Welsh town of Hay “to think about the world as it is,” “to imagine how it might be,” and to have a “big conversation about discovery and intellectual adventure.”...
by jstewardfree | Jun 9, 2014 | Grey Matter
By John Stonestreet | In a surprise to many, the Supreme Court has ruled you can not only open a town meeting in prayer, you can even mention Jesus. Since 1999, the town board of Greece, New York, has opened its monthly meeting with a prayer given by a local member of...
by jstewardfree | Jun 4, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Scott Samuelson | Once, when I told a guy on a plane that I taught philosophy at a community college, he responded, “So you teach Plato to plumbers?” Yes, indeed. But I also teach Plato to nurses’ aides, soldiers, ex-cons, preschool music teachers, janitors,...
by jstewardfree | Jun 2, 2014 | Grey Matter
Leah Barkoukis | There are plenty of studies out there demonstrating the effects long-term marijuana use has on users, but for the first time, researchers at Northwestern University looked into the relationship between casual marijuana use and brain changes. What they...
by jstewardfree | May 28, 2014 | Grey Matter
By Eric Metaxas | If you’re like me, you were probably irked that Harvard would allow a reenactment of a satanic black mass. But hold on, because there’s a lesson in all this. Really. As you may have heard, a club at Harvard had planned to reenact a “black mass” at...
by jstewardfree | May 26, 2014 | Grey Matter
By The Editors of World Magazine | The Middle East matters, says former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who argued recently that the threat of radicalized Islam continues to represent “the biggest threat to global security of the early 21st century.” Liberals in...
