This is obviously a brilliant parody. But it made me think about the same kind of junk advocacy I have heard from politicians pushing embyronic stem cell and human cloning research. We have been told that embryos aren’t really embryos, they are just cell balls. We have been told that the act . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to Michael Linton for passing along this interesting piece on seven antiphons of Advent in music: They’re sung one per day, at the Magnificat during vespers. They are very ancient, and extraordinarily rich in references to the prophecies of the Messiah. Their initials form an acrostic. . . . . Continue Reading »
Today on our homepage you’ll find a lovely essay by Michael Novak on science and religion. This is the first of three pieces he’s written featuring pair of complementarities; the others are Man and Woman, and Truth and Freedom—both of which will be published here on the First . . . . Continue Reading »
Only the infinite God can compass Man’s infinite idiocy. “Diogenes” presents us with this choice cut of scholarly nonsense : The head of the history department at Virginia Military Institute suggests that the Apostle Paul may have been spying for the Romans. Rose Mary Sheldon, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Apparently assisted suicide is becoming a big topic in Sweden, and so I have been asked by Radio UPF, out of the University of Lund, to speak on the issue of “suicide tourism.” They stated that opinions like mine aren’t heard all that often, and so they asked for some of my time. I . . . . Continue Reading »
I am very pleased that people literally from all over the world are coming to SHS. The new counter lists 94 countries in less than a week. The latest visitor was from the Palestinian Territories. As-salaam . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to Nathaniel Peters for calling our attention to Christianity Today ‘s response to the Newsweek gay-marriage debacle. CT’s response is brilliant and truly devastating. I do have one quibble, though. They say, All this would be infuriating and insulting if it weren’t finally . . . . Continue Reading »
In another fine essay of remembrance for Avery Cardinal Dulles, George Weigel writes : Avery Dulles was a self-consciously ecclesial theologian, who made a deliberate decision to “think with the church.” Some imagined this a form of conservatism; if it was (and such labels really . . . . Continue Reading »
The best part of the George Bush Shoe Incident is definitely the President’s priceless one-liner: “I saw into his sole.” That’s about as funny as puns get. If sense of humor is a good rough guide to intelligence, then either Bush is really pretty smart or has a pretty smart . . . . Continue Reading »
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