Newsweek religion commentator Lisa Miller complains that the cost of synagogue affiliation is driving Jews away from their religion. Man-bites-dog has nothing on this one; when is the last time that anyone has argued that the big problem with the Jews is that they are short of money? Nonetheless, . . . . Continue Reading »
We are delighted with the tremendous response to our recent post “Are These the Ten Worst Hymns of All Time?” All along, our plan was to follow the ten worst with the ten best. So now, after much consideration (and a bit of solitary suffering, here and there, among our staffers; it does hurt, . . . . Continue Reading »
Every day, it seems, the Australian papers have health care problem-related stories—just like we do in the States. A front page headline , “Hospital Patients Treated in Driveway,” in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, certainly caught my eye. It seems . . . . Continue Reading »
The folks at Azure have generously unlocked my article on Henry James , which I wrote about earlier in the week , recommending it to readers who are interested in thinking about literature from a conservative perspective. If you like the essay, please consider subscribing to Azure . The quarterly . . . . Continue Reading »
The community of Christians worshipping at Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho, is part of a small denomination called the Confederation of Reformed Evangelical Churches. They are liturgically distinctive in that they have developed their own way of singing the biblical psalms under the guidance of Dr. . . . . Continue Reading »
We all struggle with rest.The paradox of modernity, according to theologian Colin Gunton, is that “a world dedicated to the pursuit of leisure and of machines that save labour is chiefly marked by its levels of rush, frenetic busyness and stress.” Liberals and conservatives, secularists . . . . Continue Reading »
Through the negotiations of Cuba’s Cardinal Ortega , the Cuban government has just agreed to release 52 political prisoners —about two-thirds of the prisoners known to have been seized in the 2003 government campaign against political opposition. During John Paul II’s 1998 visit to . . . . Continue Reading »
I believe that we are in the midst of an attempted coup de culture that seeks to supplant Judeo/Christian moral philosophy (equality of life ethic, human exceptionalism), that has long been the backbone of the West’s freedoms, with a society based on anti human . . . . Continue Reading »
” Saving nature’s unborn from Gulf oil disaster ,” the headline at CNN reads. Hard to know how the oil spill threatened them, but the subject looked interesting. So I clicked on it, to find that it was a feel-good story about efforts to relocate clutches of sea-turtle eggs to . . . . Continue Reading »
I am afraid to say that I have become a more regular listener to a podcast from an atheist blog than I am a poster here at Evangel. Luke Muehlhauser’s Conversations From the Pale Blue Dot is one of the better podcasts out there that takes time to examine both sides of important issues in . . . . Continue Reading »
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