Joe Carter

What do you do if you find out your kid didn’t get into an Ivy League school? Sleep better at night : A report released this week by Insite Security is sure to shake parents’ confidence. The security firm analyzed crime statistics on and around the campuses of the eight Ivy League . . . . Continue Reading »

“Something that is beyond man is happening,” said Glenn Beck at a rally two weeks ago. “America today begins to turn back to God.” The thousands of supporters nodded in agreement, as did millions more who heard the address on television. I too wanted to agree, but I was hindered by a technical consideration: Which God are we referring to? … Continue Reading »

Each day I use Google Reader to sift through roughly a thousand posts on a couple of hundred blogs (310 to be exact) in order to find material for daily blog posts and the 33 Things feature. Still, it’s not nearly enough to find the content I need. There are at least a few hundred more worthy . . . . Continue Reading »

Can anyone explain what Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is trying to say ? Last week we saw a Florida Pastor – with 30 members in his church – threaten to burn Korans which lead to riots and killings in Afghanistan. We also saw Democrats and Republicans alike assume that Pastor Jones . . . . Continue Reading »

Over on Tablet, David Goldman explains how the Orthodox Jewish theologian Michael Wyschogrod taught him the biblical reasons behind the dietary laws : Rational argument about kashrut falls short, but I was ready to hear a biblical argument, especially now that my daughter had called me on the . . . . Continue Reading »

Christopher Hitchens totally looks like Martin Luther . . . . Continue Reading »

Outside a church in Indonesia , a Christian was stabbed in the stomach and the minister, who came to the first victim’s aid, was hit in the head with a wooden plank: No one claimed responsibility for the attacks. But suspicion immediately fell on Islamic hard-liners who have repeatedly warned . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friends at National Review have presented a strong defense of traditional marriage : What the institution and policy of marriage aims to regulate is sex, not love or commitment. These days, marriage regulates sex (to the extent it does regulate it) in a wholly non-coercive manner, sex outside . . . . Continue Reading »

Economist Robin Hanson raises an interesting question : A key pillar of modern morality is the sanctity of romantic love.  We reel in horror at the thought of “backward” societies, including our ancestors’, who arrange marriages without intense emotional romantic love. . . . . Continue Reading »

When I first read about “Sacramentans” at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, I thought it was referring to some sort of Catholic order that I had never heard about. But then I realized it just meant “people from Sacramento.” Sacramento, California . That explains a lot: . . . . Continue Reading »