Joe Carter

As Open Culture notes, the Italian web site Haltadefinizione has a unique way to view six masterpieces from the famous  Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Each painting can be viewed in super high resolution—close to 28 billion pixels, a resolution 3,000 times greater than your normal . . . . Continue Reading »

The London-based graphic designer Yanko Tsvetkov calls this a ” Geography of Prejudice .” I call it an “Accurate Assessment of How We Really View Europe”: (click to enlarge image) Here are some other countries: As seen by France . . . . . . and Great Britain . . . . . . and . . . . Continue Reading »

The Book: Introverts in the Church: Finding Our Place in an Extroverted Culture by Adam S. McHugh:10 — The Gist: Many churches—particularly evangelical churches—tend to be extroverted places where introverts are marginalized, causing some Christians to feel they are not being . . . . Continue Reading »

From Jonathan McIntosh : This is a re-imagined Donald Duck cartoon remix constructed using dozens of classic Walt Disney cartoons from the 1930s to 1960s. Donald’s life is turned upside-down by the current economic crisis and he finds himself unemployed and falling behind on his house . . . . Continue Reading »

A handwritten sign on the pulpit of the Church of the Lord Jesus warns members of the consequences of picking up snakes and drinking strychnine: By the way, I know some Catholics think snake-handling is a something that happens in Protestant churches every Sunday. While some shocking things you may . . . . Continue Reading »

1. Cashvertise The average 100 USD Note is circulating for 7.4 years, it changes hands on average 3x per week, so each ad on a 100 USD note is seen by more then 1000 persons. I would say, this can easily be sold at 5 USD/note. The other notes are much shorter in circulation: $1: 1.8 years $5: 1.3 . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Patheos , they’re beginning a new multi-week series that asks the question of all the faiths participating in the site: What Do I Really Believe? As Elizabeth Scalia explains, “The question is meant to be more than an intellectual exploration of specific dogma, though; it is a . . . . Continue Reading »

Christopher O. Tollefsen argues that accepting the “liberal” definition on pregnancy can actually help clarify the morality of contraception, abortion, and embryo adoption: Liberals and conservatives sometimes spar over the definition of pregnancy. Some liberals define the term as . . . . Continue Reading »

[Note: Every Friday on First Thoughts we host a discussion about some aspect of popular culture. Have a suggestion for a topic? Send them to me at jcarter@firstthings.com] In honor of yesterday’s golden anniversary of The Flintstones —the show first aired on Sept. 30, . . . . Continue Reading »

William Oddie makes an intriguing suggestion : . . . [I]t might now be time seriously to start thinking about an unavoidable question: after John Henry Newman, who next? My answer is that it can only be Gilbert Keith Chesterton. The obvious objection to this is that Chesterton was nothing like our . . . . Continue Reading »