Mark Misulia

Via Front Porch Republic, R.J. Snell writes about those young progressives in the spotlight who, “holding fast to their prejudice of superiority, consider wisdom of the past . . . worth less than a new technique schemed in an afternoon and marketed as the next new thing.” I tend to think . . . . Continue Reading »

Philip Kitcher at the New York Times Sunday Book Review has written an honest review of Alex Rosenberg’s The Atheists Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life Without Illusions , in light of the New Republic ’s christening it 2011’s worst book . Rosenberg’s compendium to the . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Prosblogion, Helen De Cruz gives an engaging analysis of one of scripture’s most invoked grounds for conviction, testimony: “Undefeated testimony: the kind that occurs in the absence of at least the following common and probably most characteristic defeaters: (1) internal . . . . Continue Reading »

John O’Callaghan of Notre Dame writes this in response to John Breen’s claim about the Church’s proper response to the HHS mandate. A Thomist philosopher’s take on the matter: But with the involvement of the state comes the coercive power of the state.  And so there are at . . . . Continue Reading »

Frank Bruni, noted New York Times theologian, is doing his best to remind the public of the lamentable fact that the Catholic Church still exists: I’ve been monitoring and occasionally writing about the church’s child sex-abuse crisis since 1992, and most of church leaders’ apologies . . . . Continue Reading »

It is time to come out of the closet, dispel stereotypes, and continue fighting oppressive legislative inequality. Same-sex marriage is important, but on March 24th, atheists, agnostics, and secular humanists throughout the country will gather on the mall in Washington D.C. to celebrate what . . . . Continue Reading »

Yehudah Mirsky, writing for Jewish Ideas Daily, explores why it took so long for Rabbi Heschel to take off in Israel In 1957 Heschel visited Israel for the first time.  The transformative experience impressed on him Israel’s centrality to Jewish existence.  Yet the “rebirth of . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Stokes Paulsen, writing for Public Discourse, laments the sorry condition of Vanderbilt’s awfully ironic pronouncements of toleration. An ultimatum has be issued announcing that the university will dispense with student religious groups that “impose faith-based or belief-based . . . . Continue Reading »

David and Amber Lapp, research associates at the Institute for American Values, have written a provoking piece for Public Discourse that dismantles popular myths about successful cohabitation and fragmented family life entitled ” What Marriage Means in Today’s ‘New Normal’ . . . . Continue Reading »

The Freedom From Religion Foundation took out a full-page ad in the New York Times on Friday that seems to generally represent the position of certain advocates of the contraception mandate, advocates whose encyclopedic ignorance of Catholic Christianity startles. Written as an “open letter to . . . . Continue Reading »