I&C on Kindle

by Sally Thomas

Subscribe here.Please note that we have no control over subscription prices, which are set by Amazon. But you’re so happy to take us with you wherever you go that money is no object. Right? . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

FT Blogs on the Kindle

by Joe Carter

First Things blogs can now be downloaded onto your Amazon Kindle , allowing you the ability to read them even when you’re not wirelessly connected. (The print edition of the magazine will soon be available.) The Kindle provides the full text content and images of all posts, and are updated . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

Media Bias on Assisted Suicide Isn’t Just an American Phenomenon

by Wesley J. Smith

This is unbelievable: A Scot newspaper, reporting on the Debbie Purdy case, states that the Lords gave Purdy’s husband permission to take his wife to Switzerland for suicide.  From the story:The law prohibiting assisted suicide is set to be clarified after a woman with multiple sclerosis . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

Read This, I Pray Thee: And He Saith, I Cannot

by Joseph Bottum

Speaking of posters, here’s a little Christmas gift:Because none of us has enough illegible calligraphy in our lives.[Rating: 12 out of . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

The Devils Also Believe, and Tremble

by Joseph Bottum

Hmmm. A poster for anyone we know?The devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

And Now

by Sally Thomas

Go cast your vote in The Crescat’s Visually-Appalling Church Art contest.Then take the I&C Church . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

And She Was Like, “Don’t You Walk Away While I’m Talking to You,” and He Was Like, “Whatever, I’m Outta Here,” and the Other Guy Was Like, “Hey, Y’all, Watch This!”

by Sally Thomas

Another fresco from The Church of the Frescoes. “Moses Coming Down From the Mountain?”Can’t remember, can’t totally tell. [Rating: -19 out of 100] . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

Madrassification of Turkey

by David P. Goldman

A friend in Turkey calls my attention to a dramatic reform of the Turkish education system favoring graduates of Islamic religious high schools, calling it the most important developing in the country since 1923:ANKARA, July 22 (AFP)—Turkey’s Islamist-rooted government Wednesday . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

You Say Tomato

by Sally Thomas

Here’s an interesting sculptural specimen I ran across in the crypt at the Episcopal Church of the Frescoes in Glendale Springs, North Carolina, back in June. It is, as you can see, a representation of Our Lord wearing what looks like a pashmina, or maybe a camel’s-hair hand-me-down from . . . . Continue Reading »

3 Aug 2009 0

Pain et Cirques

by Joe Carter

Overheard at Marginal Revolution : . . . Uncle Sam is on the verge of paying the City of Los Angeles $30 million to subsidize a ten-year run of Cirque du Soleil. So it’s finally come to pass—America has embarked on the same road down which ancient Rome marched to its ruin: Uncle Sam not . . . . Continue Reading »

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