The Anglican Bishop of Durham : In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the rails altogether. The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church (TEC) in the United States has voted decisively to allow in principle . . . . Continue Reading »
Vicki McKenna is one of my favorite radio hosts. A political conservative, she plies her trade over the airwaves of Madison and Milwuakee. Vicki has energy, vivaciousness, a great radio voice—and she likes me! I was on her show “Upfront With Vicki McKenna” yesterday on WIBA . . . . Continue Reading »
Assisted suicide advocates will say anything in the cause of transforming suicide into a medical treatment. Barbara Coombs Lee, head of the country’s most influential assisted suicide organization Compassion and Choices (formerly Hemlock Society), writing in the Huffington Post, literally . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that the assisted suicide movement believes it has some winds in its sails, its pretense of being reasonable and measured is collapsing under the ideological zeal that drives the movement. Case in point: The head of Compassion and Choices, Barbara Coombs Lee, has written an outrageous . . . . Continue Reading »
Pure madness. Beyond madness, reckless irresponsibility.Let’s say you want to expand access to insurance—which I believe is a laudable goal. There are very simple ways to do it, without euthanizing a system that for most people is working very well. You could expand . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s a very thoughtful brief essay that features both Tom Wolfe and ME. It’s fairly pessimistic—but still postmodern conservative—because its nostalgia is not for porches and goats but for pilots and astronauts—the members of the Greatest Generation. Those men . . . . Continue Reading »
Taking forty-five years to finish a book project that almost no one will read in its entirety may seem . . . I don’t know, what’s a good word for disheartening? But Oxford University has been around for 913 years, which gives the school the patience to spend half a decade completing the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Anglican bishop of Chelmsford has advised that holy water be removed from churches in his diocese in an effort to stop to spread of swine flu. And I thought a little water might help with dangerous swine . . . . . Continue Reading »
Lutherans For Life National Conference Celebrating the Abundant Life July 24-25, 2009 Doubletree Westport, St. Louis, Missouri Keynote speaker: Bobby Schindler, brother of Terri Schindler Schiavo Great speakers, workshops and life affirming fellowship! The two-day conference begins at 3:00, Friday, . . . . Continue Reading »
In our May issue—now available free online —Alan Jacobs reviews the Green Bible : The project website tells us that “with over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, compared to 490 references to heaven and 530 references to love, the Bible carries a powerful message for the . . . . Continue Reading »
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