Criticism comes with the territory when one writes books, and the best any author can hope for is intelligent criticism that engages ones argument and leads to new insight all around… . Continue Reading»
In recent weeks, Brazil has been convulsed with protests. How are Christians responding? Two different believers in Brazil take two different attitudes. Guilherme de Carvalho is a staff worker at LAbri, a Christian study center, in Belo Horizonte, a city in the more developed southeast of Brazil. He is also the pastor of a local Evangelical congregation… . Continue Reading»
Much of the pro-life community is excited over the passage last week of a bill in the Texas House of Representatives restricting abortions after twenty weeks. On the surface, this sounds like a bill that everyone who is pro-life should support. After all, the legislation is based on findings that unborn babies experience pain beginning at the twentieth week of development… Continue Reading»
Scene: A florists shop somewhere in America, 2013 The Gentleman walks into shop and greets the owner familiarly. The Florist returns the greetings as she steps behind the counter… . Continue Reading»
Spenser’s Faerie Queene and James’ Golden Bowl as summer reading? I can hear my wife groaning and commenting that these recommendations amount to the intellectual equivalent of my usual vacation plans, which often involve climbing remote mountains and going on hundred mile bike rides. Continue Reading»
The year 2014 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of the ongoing project Evangelicals and Catholics Together. From the beginning, ECT was more than an alliance of convenience. It was a theological movement grounded in the Holy Scriptures and the deepest impulses of the historic Christian faith.… Continue Reading»
Thank you, Alliance Defending Freedom, for your heroic work defending life, marriage, and liberty. During the past year it has been a blessing to work together on marriage. It’s been a source of encouragement. Thank you Austin Nimocks, Kellie Fiedorek, and Greg Scott for your friendship over the past year .Continue Reading»
Gregory A. Thornbury, the recently-announced incoming president of the Kings College, has a great task ahead of him. The institution he will lead announces that its mission is to contribute to American society by producing graduates who command the important intellectual traditions, who think lucidly about the social and political issues that confront them today … Continue Reading»
We no longer perceive ourselves to be free people making good or bad personal choices from which we will either benefit or suffer. Instead, our personal problems are being medicalized”almost to the point that whenever we hurt ourselves, we are told it is actually a symptom of illness… . Continue Reading»
Is the Supreme Courts decision to make it easier for states to institute voter ID laws a gift to the center left? So argues Ross Douthat, who points out that while voter IDs do not seem to have driven down voting by nonwhites in 2012, there is reason to think that the left can use them to rally public opinion against the return of Jim Crow-type disenfranchisement… . Continue Reading»