In the spirit of today’s feast, some words from Benedict XVI, in an Angelus address on March 13th, 2006: When one has the grace to sense a strong experience of God, it is as though seeing something similar to what the disciples experienced during the Transfiguration: For a moment they . . . . Continue Reading »
I so often write about the deadly serious side of the animal rights movement—the threats to people—that I too often forget to point out some of the more jejune stunts that some advocates pull. Case in point: One animal rights activist wants to change the name of Homo sapiens. From his . . . . Continue Reading »
With a freshly printed diploma hanging on the wall, I find myself at a new job in a new city. Everything is original, unknown, exciting. But as much as these novel sights and sounds draw my mind to the present and to the future, I am also reminded of the past. A new chapter begins as another ends, . . . . Continue Reading »
In the most recent issue of FT, Mary Eberstadt candidly traces the cultural consequences of the birth-control mentality, foreseen and forewarned by Paul VI. Writing for the Catholic News Agency, James Francis Cardinal Stafford illuminates a different dimension of the forty-year-old story: the . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this week I reflected on the Class Day speech that Solzhenitsyn gave at Harvard in 1978. Over at Christianity Today , Chuck Colson offers some reflections of his own, namely comparing Solzhenitsyn to the prophet Jeremiah. Here’s a sample: As it happened, this summer I was reading a . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s over, but it’s far from done. The 2008 Lambeth Conference wrapped up this past Sunday, and all the purple-shirted Anglican bishops went back home to the everyday work of proclaiming the Gospel in dioceses from Singapore to South Dakota. Was it a success? Will Anglicans look back . . . . Continue Reading »
Secondhand Smokette, better known as Debra J. Saunders, has an excellent column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle castigating the animal rights terrorists who are attacking animal researchers. (I should point out that she was writing about the dangers of animal rights before I ever did.) From . . . . Continue Reading »
It was a Tuesday morning like any other Tuesday morning. I came into the office, said hi to my co-workers, and checked my e-mail. I had never given any thought to Scandinavian crime novels myself, but all that was about to change. When I got my weekly e-mail update from Books & Culture , I saw that . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s some good news to brighten up your Monday: LarkNews.com , a Christian satire website in the mock-news tradition of The Onion , has posted new articles for the month of August. My favorites among the latest headlines include “MySpace gives pastor ‘prophetic’ . . . . Continue Reading »
I know and have read little of Solzhenitsyn, but at some point in college I read his address at Harvard’s Class Day in 1978. To me he captured brilliantly Western society’s predominant form of legalism in which the law is obeyed only so far as one is compelled by the phrasing of . . . . Continue Reading »
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