So I wrote up a talk at the ISI Honors Program on “What Was History (with a Capital H)?” Even the part I actually gave was way too long. And here’s part of the introduction that I had to cut. I will get around to posting some of the other parts soon. Are human beings fundamentally . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s our Latin Mass day. Typically we go to Mass at noon, and then we stay at church all day, because there’s Holy Hour at six, and friends of ours who drive an hour to Mass don’t bother to go home in between services. They bring picnic lunches and schoolwork and make a day of . . . . Continue Reading »
In the first go ’round, Neill v. Bullseye Collection Agency promised to be one of the weirdest, most interesting cases in recent years. A collection agency was putting WWJD? —What Would Jesus Do?—in the upper corner of its dunning letters, and a couple named Mark and Sara Neill sued, . . . . Continue Reading »
A while back, Sally found a flashdrive cross necklace: Wear your faith and be saved! She rated it 23 out of 100, so I guess this flashplayer cross necklace can’t do much better:In fact, let’s say that it does worse.[Rating: 22 out of . . . . Continue Reading »
The wonderful Anthony Esolen: So the last two Popes have been saying, though always more politely than that. I have recently experienced, in a most dismaying way, what happens when an entire culture places faith under suspicion, and relies upon the weak reed of unassisted reason. For reason . . . . Continue Reading »
Brought to you by the new but not improved Newsweek , the latest push for polyamory: Terisa, 41, is at the center of this particular polyamorous cluster. A filmmaker and actress, she is well-spoken, slender and attractive, with dark, shoulder-length hair, porcelain skin—and a powerful need for . . . . Continue Reading »
Our reader Titus has corrected my erroneous impressions regarding the presence of a sign along I-40, somewhere at the western end of Tennessee, featuring an image of Saint Michael the Archangel. A fanciful traveler at the best of times, I had assumed that there was a truck stop at the bottom of . . . . Continue Reading »
At InsideCatholic, Edward T. Oakes, S.J. explains how a book on the Apostle’s Creed changed the course of history : In 1968, a professor of theology at the University of Regensburg wrote a modestly sized treatise on the Apostles’ Creed called Introduction to Christianity . Its impact, . . . . Continue Reading »
In our May issue, George McKenna reviews two new books that examine the complicated legacy of Booker T. Washington : What was Washington’s approach? Aimed mainly at blacks in the rural South (where the vast majority lived at the time), it was to teach them the skills to succeed economically, . . . . Continue Reading »
So, what are we to make of the Reducing the Need for Abortion and Supporting Parents Act ? Rick Garnett writes : They are asking pro-lifers to agree that it is “compromise” to accept the roll-back of the gains they have secured . . . . Many of us who are pro-life are being asked to accept . . . . Continue Reading »
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