“As powerful as anything you’ll encounter on the stage or big screen this year,” wrote Anthony Sacramone earlier this week, reviewing God on Trial , a “compelling and disturbing television drama to broadcast on PBS stations Sunday, November 9.” It opens with a bus . . . . Continue Reading »
This passage from The Economist ‘s report on the 2008 gubernatorial elections caught my eye: In 2004 Christine Gregoire, a Democrat, defeated Dino Rossi by just 133 votes. Mr Rossi did not concede the battle until June 2005. This election was an ugly reprise. Democrats filed a lawsuit to . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s Wall Street Journal profiles “The Priests”, a trio of priests from Northern Ireland that is releasing an album of sacred vocal music with Sony BMG later this month: . . . they’ve been navigating an unusual path between piety and pop culture. With the help of . . . . Continue Reading »
We have an organ shortage that desperately needs ameliorating. With such pressing needs, some wish to bend or even break important ethical rules by, for example, obliterating the dead donor rule so that people can be killed for their organs.We can’t go down that road, but if it works, we can . . . . Continue Reading »
Mary Pilcher Cook is a terrific politician who is right as a good rain on the issues we cover here at SHS. I have just heard from Mary and learned that she won her seat to the Kansas Senate by a comfortable 10% margin. I am thrilled. She is the kind of young leader who stands on principle that this . . . . Continue Reading »
Slate is conducting an online discussion on the future of conservatism, titled The Conservative Crackup with contributions from Tucker Carlson, Ross Douthat, Douglas Kmiec, Jim Manzi, and Christine Todd Whitman. Kmiec weighs in with, “The Not-So-Grand, Really-Old-Idea Party” and Douthat . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity Today has been asking that question in the past few issues of their magazine. This month they tapped former FT junior fellow Jordan Hylden, now a MDiv student at Duke Divinity School, to answer the question as applied to politics. If you notice the influence of a series of articles . . . . Continue Reading »
How much can Islamic societies be liberalized? For better or for worse, at least this much : Turkey is said to have more transvestites per head than anywhere bar Brazil. . . . In June Istanbul hosted the country’s biggest gay pride parade, with hundreds of unfazed riot police looking on. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, Benedict XVI challenged Christians and Muslims of the world to work together to defend human rights and end discrimination and violence. The speech concluded a three-day meeting of the recently formed Catholic-Muslim Forum: The commandments of love of God and love of neighbor are at . . . . Continue Reading »
Lock your doors, hide the children, and frighten the horses—"femme theory" has come to town! As a heterosexual girl who is nevertheless more femme-y than feminine, I’ve been following Sublime Femme ‘s "Rethinking High Femme" series ( part 1 , part 2 ) with . . . . Continue Reading »
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