1. My wife is in the late stages of pregnancy with our second child, so blogging is going to be light-to-nonexistent for a while. 2. I have some On The Square thoughts about how some kinds of respect for Obama’s words and the concerns of some Obama supporters could be used to defeat . . . . Continue Reading »
In his On the Square post today, Wesley J. Smith has come to tell the tale of the Death of Marriage. When did marriage die? In 1976, when the California Supreme Court ruled that non-married couples could sue each other for breach of contract, too : Then, Michele Triola Marvin sued the movie star . . . . Continue Reading »
In Malcolm Magee’s fascinating book on Woodrow Wilson’s “faith-based foreign policy,” What the World Should Be , the author notes that, in the two major conflicts during Wilson’s administration, the president took sides largely out of a desire to divide the world into . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , Mark D. Tooley takes a trip to Chautauqua, and meditates on how far it has strayed from its original mission: At the United Methodist House the week I attended the chaplain was the delightful president of a historic black seminary in the south. A native of Antigua . . . . Continue Reading »
When I hear the word comfort, the images that come to mind are macaroni and cheese, recliners, and powerful air conditioning. Comfort food and comfortable surroundings are concrete manifestations of comfort. But of course that is only one kind of comfort, a temporal, surface comfort. . . . . Continue Reading »
Pantheism in the Prayer Book Brian Miller, Juicy Ecumenism What Is Coptic Christianity, Anyway? Geoffrey Reiter, Christ and Pop Culture The Constitutional Status of Islam Peter Berger, American Interest Darwin Without Teleology? Gerard M. Verschuuren, Strange Notions A New Chapter for . . . . Continue Reading »
Today the Catholic Church celebrates the Feast of Blessed Mother Teresa. A great work to revisit is her famous 1982 Harvard Class Day Address found here. Yes, there is hunger. Maybe not the hunger for a piece of bread, but there is a terrible hunger for love. There is a terrible hunger for the word . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, first of all, to Jim on the reaching the Centennnial number of comments. We can add, of course, over 75O TWEETS. In general, our SOCIAL MEDIA attention has been up, and I remind all our fans to get in the habit of TWEETING, LIKING, and SHARING all our POSTMODERN yet CONSERVATIVE wisdom. On . . . . Continue Reading »
This week Derek Webb released his latest album, I Was Wrong, I’m Sorry, and I Love You . The album is more explicitly about the church than some of his recent work, and it marks a return to his roots, both thematically and musically. Back in the nineties, Derek belonged to the Christian band . . . . Continue Reading »
Ever since joining the postmodern conservative blog site, it has been my fondest fantasy to receive one hundred comments on a post. It has so pre-occupied my thoughts that as the number of comments on my last post yesterday crept into the nineties, I could not resist trying to force the day, . . . . Continue Reading »
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