Joe Carter

Recently I gave a talk at the Christian Web Conference in which I argued that we often confuse clarity with profundity. I noted that one of Ernest Hemingway’s most profound stories was not only clear, but short enough to fit on Twitter: For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn. Hemingway is said to . . . . Continue Reading »

In a review of her book Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion , Curtis J. Evans notes how Barbara Savage demonstrates that “the ‘nexus between black religion and politics’ has necessarily been a strained one.” First, she notes that the choices that . . . . Continue Reading »

On the tenth anniversary of Slate , Jonah Goldberg wrote revealed the surefire way to get a story through the online magazine’s editorial defenses: “Pitch a story, any story, that’s counterintuitive, and someone on the receiving end will say ‘brilliant!’” That . . . . Continue Reading »

“As I hurtled down the highway, a pair of golden arches crept over the horizon, and the proverbial lightbulb smacked me in the forehead,” says visual artist and blogger Stephen Von Worley , “To gauge the creep of cookie-cutter commercialism, there’s no better barometer than . . . . Continue Reading »

Despite the logical fallacy in the first sentence of this excerpt, Matthew Schmitz makes some important points in his post about the contributions —both communally and economically—of the elderly: We conservatives have little business decrying euthanasia unless we also stand against the . . . . Continue Reading »

At the journal Cross-Currents , N. Daniel Korobkin explains why Orthodox Jews should pray for the government : [W]e decided to daven in the “frummer” shuls, the ones that omitted those newfangled prayers that had nothing to do with Yiddishkeit, and that were therefore not printed in the . . . . Continue Reading »

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From USA Today : Most Americans marry for keeps or, if it doesn’t last, don’t want to repeat the same mistake, according to new Census data that show 76% of those who have ever been married have married just once. Almost 20% have been married twice and 5% have been married three or more . . . . Continue Reading »

Is Benedict XVI the “green pope”? Some Catholics seem to think so , though Samuel Gregg, director of research at the Acton Institute, says the pontiff is the ” not-so-green pope “: [T]he present hype about “the greenest pope in history”—to cite another . . . . Continue Reading »

I have a confession to make: I don’t dislike Barack Obama. Oh sure, I dislike his policies and wish he wasn’t the most powerful leader on the planet. I also believe that some of the views he holds are—there’s no other way to put it—evil. Nevertheless, he appears to be a . . . . Continue Reading »