Mary Ann Glendon’s essay “Cicero Superstar” leads the January issue of First Things, now available on our website. Prof. Glendon writes:More rare than athletes who have played both baseball and football in the major leagues are individuals who have achieved great distinction in . . . . Continue Reading »
To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good . . . Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good . . . . Continue Reading »
Craig Carter (no relation) teaches theology and ethics at an evangelical college in Canada. In a recent class on marriage he had his students read Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body by John Paul II. He relates the effect it had on his students : They were mostly surprised to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Chris Mooney is a partisan author (The Republican War on Science) and a leftist political advocate. He has made a career of pushing ideological goals as if they were objective scientific agendas. And of course many science journalists—often in name only—have followed his lead, . . . . Continue Reading »
Many people make a resolution in the New Year to be more intentional, more diligent, more zealous for daily Bible reading. And God bless them in their desire and effort to be deeply in God’s Word! What is their point? Why immerse ourselves deeply in God’s Word? Here is the great news . . . . Continue Reading »
Even for Fox News, this is surprising, yet this is how every believer ought to be prepared to respond—telling the truth with meekness and gentleness. Likely, Brit Hume’s statement will be regarded as arrogant and closed-minded, but Buddhism doesn’t provide for the needs of . . . . Continue Reading »
This can’t be right. As much of the USA chatters in the deep freeze—N. Carolina facing a once in a generation cold snap—weather folk in the UK warn it is facing one of the coldest winter in 100 years. From the story:Britain is bracing itself for one of the coldest . . . . Continue Reading »
C.W. Nevius has a good column in today’s San Francisco Chronicle that dovetails with a post I wrote the other day about the abuse of medical marijuana laws by patients, doctors, and “clinics.” Apparently in San Francisco—where nothing aberrant should ever surprise . . . . Continue Reading »
So I went to four of the Holiday movies. I still haven’t gone to AVATAR and, contrary to my promise, may not get around to it. I sort of buy the argument of Porcher Caleb that Christian and imperial conservatives have been overreacting to it. That’s not because pantheism in the sense of . . . . Continue Reading »
“In the same way that a wife shares together in the wealth of her husband, so that what is the husband’s is also the wife’s and, on the other hand, what is the wife’s is the husbands, so also all believers are partakers of all the wealth of God. They have all that He has . . . . Continue Reading »
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