The Family Research Council is launching The Social Conservative Review. An e-mail states it will constitute
"a unique summary of news of interest to social conservatives. The focus of this
comprehensive collation of stories, journal articles, and op-eds is the intersection of moral concern and public life, the issues that reflect and shape not only events and legislation, but the nation's very soul.
FRC will send the Review out twice monthly.
It will feature important pieces from the country's leading newspapers, magazines, journals and conservative Web sites. FRC's goal is to help keep you informed -- and ready to act -- about the policies and proposals, research and reports that bear directly on life, liberty, family and Christian faith.
Me: I have reproduced the e-mail below, complete with links. It looks to me like a fabulous service.
The Social Conservative Review: The Insider's Guide to Pro-Family News
April 29, 2010
Educational Freedom and Reform
- "The ACLU: Unwelcome Schoolyard Bully?"
Cynthia Hill, Family Research Council - 2010 April School Reform News (full text pdf)
Edited by Ben Boychuk, The Heartland Institute - "Making Men without Chests: The Intellectual Life and
Moral Imagination"
R. J. Snell, First Principles Journal - "Are There Harms of Home Schooling?"
Christopher O. Tollefsen, The Witherspoon Institute - "Expulsion may await campus pro-lifers"
Bill Bumpas, OneNewsNow - "Teach Social Justice-Or Else"
Mark Bauerlein, Students For Academic Freedom - "Education Spending in the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act: Stimulating the Status Quo"
Lindsey Burke, The Heritage Foundation
Environmental Issues
- "How a Climate Change Treaty Threatens You, Your Nation
and Your Church"
Dr. Cal Beisner, FRC Family Policy Lecture - "My Tribute to Earth Day"
Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council - "Titles You Can't Make Up: Cleaner Air Could Speed
Global Warming"
Tom McClusky, Family Research Council Action - "Creation and Man"
Chuck Colson, Prison Fellowship - "Getting Into Hot Water: Evangelicals and Global Warming"
Benjamin B. Phillips, Acton Institute, Journal of Markets and Morality - "Polls on
the Environment and Global Warming"
Karlyn Bowman, Andrew Rugg, American Enterprise Institute - "Celebrate Earth's Best Friend"
James M. Taylor, Heartland Institute - "The Green Shepherd: The White House Wants Churches To
Advance It's Climate Change Agenda"
Meghan Clyne, The Weekly Standard - "Environmentalism is now a religion, and being overtaken
by extremism"
Robert H. Nelson, The Catholic Thing
Faith and Policy
- "Fiscal Conservatism Is Not Enough: What Social
Conservatives Offer the Party of Lincoln"
Robert W. Patterson, The Family in America Journal - "Prophet Jim Wallis and the Ecclesia of Economic
Ignorance"
John Couretas, The Acton Institute - "Living Under God"
Ken Blackwell, Family Research Council
Health Care
- "States Face Their First ObamaCare Test"
Grace-Marie Turner, The Wall Street Journal - "Hospital Visit Horrors? Here's the Rest of the Story"
Peter Sprigg, Family Research Council - "Ten Ways Consumer-Driven Health Care Is a Proven
Success"
Greg Scandlen, The Heartland Institute - "The Separation of Health and State: What happens when
all medical decisions are political"
Opinion, Wall Street Journal - "Krugman Admits Rationing (Death Panels) From Obamacare"
Wesley J. Smith, First Things - "The Tea Party Spirit and Lawless Health Care Reform"
Charles R. Kesler, Claremont Review of Books - "Bad Medicine: The Public Square"
Joseph Bottum, First Things - "US Is Turning Into Dependency Society"
Lee Edwards, Ph.D., The Heritage Foundation - "Where's the Administration's Cost Estimate?"
James C. Capretta, National Review
Homosexuals in the Military
- "FRC's Tony Perkins Condemns Franklin Graham's Rescinded
Invitation" to participate in Pentagon prayer event.
FRC Press Release - "Sex
Matters in the Military"
Peter Sprigg, The Washington Times - "Homosexuals in the Military"
Mackubin Thomas Owens, The Ashbrook Center - "The Real Anti-Christian Bigotry"
Jay Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice
Judiciary
- The Judicial
Review
Family Research Council Action's Constitutional and Legal Commentary - "The Coming Constitutional Debate"
Judge Stephen Markham, Imprimis - "Koh Fails the Democracy Test"
John Fonte, Hudson Institute - "Delegitimizing the Roberts Court"
David Marion, The Ashbrook Institute - "ADF on striking down the National Day of Prayer Statute"
Alliance Defense Fund - "More Prayer than Protests"
Tobin Grant, Christianity Today
Marriage and Family
Family Economics
- "The
Family GDP: How Marriage and Fertility Drive the Economy"
Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D., Family Research Council - "The Economics of the Family Household"
Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D., Family Research Council Family Policy Lecture - "Family Policy Lecture: The Crushing Burden of Student
Loans on Family Formation for Generation X+"
Dr. Allan Carlson, The Howard Center, Family Research Council Family Policy Lecture - "Obamacare Update: About That Only Tax the Rich Thing . .
."
Tom McClusky, Family Research Council Action - "The VAT's in the Fire"
Ken Blackwell, The Patriot Post
Marriage
- "Facing the Bad News (on out-of-wedlock births)"
Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D., The Catholic Thing - "Culture Clash: Monogamy vs. Polyandry"
Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D., Family Research Council
Pornography
- "The
Effects of Pornography on Individuals, Marriage, Family and Community"
Patrick F. Fagan, Ph.D., Family Research Council - "Standing for Truth"
Daniel Weiss, Citizen Magazine - "Pornography and the Muslim World"
Carson Holloway, The Public Discourse - "Public
urged to take action to prevent .xxx web domain"
Erin Roach, Baptist Press
Religious Liberty
- "Wall
of Separation Between Church and State: Myth, Reality, Results"
Dr. Kenyn M. Cureton, FRC Lecture - "High Court Says Mojave Cross in California Can Stay"
Robert Barnes, The Washington Post - "Supreme Court Protects War Memorial Cross"
Jay Sekulow, American Center for Law and Justice - "Texas students see religious bias with 'year of Our
Lord'"
Casey Curlin, The Washington Times - "Homeless in Binghamton"
Faith J.H. McDonnell, Front Page Magazine - "Western Civilization on Trial"
Paul Marshall and Nina Shea, National Review Online Symposium - "Hastings
Case Tests Religious Freedom on Campus"
By Newt Gingrich, Jim Garlow, The Washington Post
Sanctity of Life
Abortion
- "Post-Abortion Suffering: A Psychiatrist Looks at the
Effects of Abortion"
Dr. Martha Shuping and Chris Gacek, J.D., Ph.D., Family Research Council - "Virginia Cuts Funding of Abortions"
Jeanne Monahan, Family Research Council - "Abortion Isn't Painless"
Editorial, The Washington Times - Oklahoma Senate overrides governor's vetoes to pass
abortion laws
Joe Sterling, CNN - Legal status of induced abortions around the globe
CBC News
Adoption
- "A Passion to
Serve, A Vision for Life"
Family Research Council Publication - "Louisiana Senate panel rejects gay adoption expansion"
Bill Barrow, Times-Picayune - "Visits to mission result in adoption"
Rob Hedelt, Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star
Cloning
- "UK Scientists Clone 3-Parent Embryos"
Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council
Bioethics
- "Obama Administration Eyes a More Active Role in
Genomics"
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, BNET - "Panel to take broad view of bioethics: President Obama
appoints commission to advise on stem cells, clinical trials and more"
Brendan Borrell, Nature - "The First Christian Voices Against Euthanasia"
David W.T. Brattston, The Weekly Standard - "Euthanasia Bill turned away, but work goes on"
Charlie Butts, One News Now
Stem Cell Research
- Family Research Council's major adult stem cell initiative, "Adult Stem Cells Saved My Life" ("Stem Cell Research Facts") features compelling video stories of persons whose lives have been transformed through adult stem cell implantation. The site also contains leading-edge information on this dynamic, transformative and entirely ethical type of stem cell treatment.
- "Vatican Funds Adult Stem Cell Research"
Dr. David Prentice, Family Research Council
Other Articles of Note for Social Conservatives
- "Apologist in chief"
Ken Blackwell, World Magazine - "A Crisis Republicans Should Not Waste"
Hadley Arkes, Weekly Standard - "After Virtue: Localism and the Restoration of Character
and Community"
Austin Lipari, First Principles Journal - "How America became a 'secular-socialist machine'"
Newt Gingrich, The Washington Post - "Schumer: Obama's 'counter-productive' Israel policy
'has to stop'"
Ben Smith, The Politico - "The Foreign Policy of Self-Abasement"
Mona Charen, National Review - "When Free Speech Wins"
Eric Giunta, Front Page Magazine