Katherine Infantine

Trevin Wax points out a few things that people of faith can learn from the 2012 election. In summary, we need a constant reality check. First, this means we cannot afford to ignore changing demographics: The days when the “male white voter” dominated elections are over, which explains why . . . . Continue Reading »

Dr. James Patrick says, in a sense, yes . While today “it is almost impossible to pick up a publication written by Christians of traditional strype that does not propose recapturing the culture, Christianizing it, as a project lying at the heart of the Christian faith,” Patrick says, it . . . . Continue Reading »

Karen Walter Goodwin offers a brief review of Colleen Carroll Campbell’s book My Sisters the Saints: A Spiritual Memoir , to be released on Tuesday, in which she “expresses dissatisfaction with ‘pat answers offered by both secular feminists and their anti-feminist . . . . Continue Reading »

When deciding how to structure and operate our prisons, suggests  Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein , we should treat them less like holding cells and more like rehabilitation centers. This model, he says, is actually based on the Torah and has been greatly successful in Israel. He describes one of . . . . Continue Reading »

“Maurice Sendak,” says Russell D. Moore , “was, by all accounts, a lonely, misanthropic, cynical, homosexual atheist.” Yet, in an article he wrote shortly after Sendak’s death a few months ago for the Nov/Dec 2012 issue of Touchstone , he praises him . . . . Continue Reading »

Is the Catholic Church showing a sincere and admirable respect for the free will of individuals and encouraging personal responsibility or is she unnecessarily turning away her members who suffer a great degree of doubt about certain Church teachings? Steve Shiffrin’s article at Mirror of . . . . Continue Reading »

“Synagogues are contracting,” says Barak Richman  professor of law and business administration at Duke University, “and American Judaism remains ossified in organizational structures that may have made sense in the 1950s but currently are unable to address contemporary . . . . Continue Reading »

In anticipation of Salvatore Cordileone’s installation as Roman Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco on October 4 (the feast day of St. Francis), Marc Andrus, the Episcopalian Bishop of California, issued what could roughly be called a welcome letter . While he and Bishop Cordileone . . . . Continue Reading »

Children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors rouse varying reactions, from reverence to disgust, to their new tattoos commemorating their ancestors . When Eli Sagir showed her grandfather, Yosef Diamant, the new tattoo on her left forearm, he bent his head to kiss it. Mr. Diamant had the same . . . . Continue Reading »

Ever since 1803, all Germans citizens registered with the government as Catholics, Protestants, or Jews have paid a “church tax.” 8-9% of the individual’s income tax bill goes to the government, which holds on to the money for a little while before passing it on to the church of . . . . Continue Reading »