Mark Misulia

Fortnight for Freedom: Whose Religious Liberty? Jessica Coblentz, Religion & Politics  Religion, Brain, and Behavior Michael Neilson, PsyRel A Reply to Steve Fuller Edward Feser, Edward Feser  Swimming the Trinity  Geoconger, GetReligion Mother Mary Assumpta on Obamacare . . . . Continue Reading »

Feeling footloose and frisky, a feather-brained fellow forced his fond father to fork over the family finances. He flew far to foreign fields and frittered his fortune feasting fabulously with faithless friends. Finally facing famine and fleeced by his fellows in folly, he found himself a . . . . Continue Reading »

Dominicana , the publication of the Dominican students of the St. Joseph Province, is supporting the Catholic bishops’ Fortnight for Freedom by providing free access to “Salt and Light: An Interview with Chris Smith” from today until July 4th:  “Salt and Light” is one . . . . Continue Reading »

David Deavel, writing for  Unique for a Reason , explores the difficulties that homosexuals who are interested in living celibate, orthodox Christian lives often meet with from within the Church as much as from without. Ron Belgau, a Catholic homosexual pursuing his PhD in philosophy at St. . . . . Continue Reading »

Some attention was given to China’s one-child policy with Vice President Joe Biden off-handedly expressed sympathy for it, but the moral horror the policy evokes in most has yet to lead to real opposition. Writing in the American Spectator , Jing Zhang of Women’s Right in China urges us . . . . Continue Reading »

Timothy Dalrymple, writing for Patheos , points to an interesting tension in our assumptions about Christianity today. Commenting on John Wilson’s Wall Street Journal “Houses of Worship” series, Dalrymple singled out what he thought to be the most striking paragraph: Consider the . . . . Continue Reading »

Helen De Cruz at Prosblogion has just returned from a philosophy of religion workshop (where arguments for and against theism are erected and tested for structural integrity, presumably) at which the Common Consent Argument for the existence of God was revived. In its simplest form: 1. Most people . . . . Continue Reading »

“We often read nowadays of the valor or audacity with which some rebel attacks a hoary tyranny or an antiquated superstition. There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one’s grandmother. The really courageous man is . . . . Continue Reading »

Writing for Religion and Politics , Alfredo Garcia chronicles the lonely movement called American atheism. For one, while they do agree on the triumph of reason and the banality of religious beliefs, they do not agree about how to go about demonstrating it to the other 90% of Americans that believe . . . . Continue Reading »

At Prosblogion , Helen De Cruz has presented a statistical analysis on the question of whether philosophers of religion take religious arguments more seriously than other philosophers. As one would expect, they do. Cruz gave eight arguments against theism and asked participants to rate them, . . . . Continue Reading »