Anna Sutherland

Rumor has it that the Church of England will soon announce the name of the new Archbishop of Canterbury—-and the U.K. bookmaker Ladbrokes suggests that it will be Justin Welby, the fifty-six-year-old Bishop of Durham . Bishop Welby would succeed current Archbishop Rowan Williams, who . . . . Continue Reading »

The Front Porch Republic election symposium touches on a topic I wrote about last week: our exaggerated view of the importance of elections. The editors write: We often take voting to be the measure of the citizen. Belonging to and participation in public life are the defining features of . . . . Continue Reading »

“The choice you make this November will shape great things, historic things, and those things will determine the most intimate and important aspects of every American life and every American family.” That sentence could have been uttered by just about any politician, candidate, or . . . . Continue Reading »

New York—area readers, take note: Fordham University is hosting a panel discussion of animal ethics on Friday, November 16. Our own R. R. Reno will participate along with Peter Singer, David Clough, and Eric Meyer. The discussion, entitled “Christians and Other Animals: Moving the . . . . Continue Reading »

Hadley Arkes, a member of the First Things advisory council, spots a problem in our current discussions of the right to religious freedom. On Right Reason he points out : We cannot insist on the one hand that our judgments on law and public policy are formed of moral reasoning and the Natural Law . . . . Continue Reading »

On his blog Via Meadia, Walter Russell Mead reflects on the meaning of the storm: Sandy isn’t an irruption of abnormality into a sane and sensible world; it is a reminder of what the world really is like. Human beings want to build lives that exclude what we can’t control — but we . . . . Continue Reading »

Thomas Friedman’s latest column  in the New York Times  is a perfect specimen of what Helen Alvaré has termed “the lazy slander of the pro-life cause.” While Friedman’s editors have corrected his laughable  biological error  since the column’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friends at The Imaginative Conservative have  unearthed a 1998 essay  by the late Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, in which she ponders the effects of feminism (both good and bad) on the family. “On the positive side of the ledger,” Fox-Genovese writes, “women’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Mark Oppenheimer explores the two worlds of American religious sisters on  Religion & Politics  today. Though he lets the women speak for themselves and is sympathetic to them all—-the nuns were “among the best people [he] had met in a long time,” and . . . . Continue Reading »

Thomas Kidd’s recent blog post about a relatively little-known political demographic—”paleo-evangelicals”—has sparked an interesting conversation about how Christians approach politics and how a generation gap contributes to those differences. In Kidd’s  . . . . Continue Reading »