Some weeks ago, my friend Debbie and I were looking for cross images. She had a specific goal in mind: she and her daughters were making a processional canopy for Father to use at Corpus Christi, and she wanted the image of a Greek Cross to trace onto the fabric, so that the girls could embroider . . . . Continue Reading »
Imagine a house in which every item is either cross-shaped or decorated with crosses. That’s the task First Things’ editor and amateur interior designer Joseph Bottum has taken upon himself in choosing the decor for Sally Thomas’ house . It’s surprising—and profoundly . . . . Continue Reading »
Let’s see. In our ongoing effort to redecorate Sally Thomas’ house, we have eschewed any concern with taste, color sense, or price. Cruciform alone matters: Everything must be either cross-shaped or decorated with crosses, to fulfill this decorator’s commission.So, thus far, . . . . Continue Reading »
On a whim, I rewatched The Andromeda Strain last night—the old, 1970s version rather than the 2008 remake from Ridley Scott, both based on the 1969 novel by Michael Crichton. Was there ever a popular writer more in love with the gadgets of science—and more suspicious of science itself, . . . . Continue Reading »
Supporters of health care reform respond to the charge that Obamacare will lead to health care rationing with two paradoxical arguments. First, they deny that rationing is being contemplated. Then, they argue that health care is already rationed anyway, so we might as well do it right. (The . . . . Continue Reading »
At Public Discourse, Carson Holloway questions the analogy between Brown v. Board of Education and a future court case to legalize same-sex marriage: In Brown v. Board of Education , for example, the Supreme Court delivered an important victory for racial justice by striking down segregation in . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an image to ponder: Crucifixion as blood-type test. And just think how fabulous it’ll look over Jody’s sofa. [Rating: -27.3 out of 100]from . . . . Continue Reading »
First Christianity Today had ” Young, Restless, Reformed ,” an article about the growing number of young, doctrinally serious Calvinists. Now those young Calvinists are thinking about getting hitched, and along comes ” Restless, Reformed, and Single ”: By day, firefighter . . . . Continue Reading »
After my note the other day on the editing of the Kaddish prayer by an odious West Coast rabbi, a reader observed that clergy of numerous denominations are tweaking prayers to suit their political or other agendas regularly. Why not — the reader craftily suggests — put together a . . . . Continue Reading »
Yuval Levin has been among the best, maybe the best, conservative critics of ObamaCare and provides us with a brief and incisive commentary (with James Capretta) of our current administration’s true designs. Leaving aside all the gory details for a minute regarding the merits of his . . . . Continue Reading »
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