In The Economist , Catholicism, and Europe , Samuel Gregg gives that magazine’s coverage of religion qualified praise, as better than usual “though it usually slips in one of the usual secularist bromides, as if to reassure its audiences that it’s keeping a critical . . . . Continue Reading »
I am not sure I understand why this is noteworthy. Some cattle has been cloned from dead animals and their offspring have entered the food chain. From the BBC report, “Cattle Cloned From Dead Animals:The aim of livestock cloning is to clone the best animals to produce the best . . . . Continue Reading »
I have sometimes written here that some in the science and philosophical communities hope to turn science—which properly understood is a method of obtaining and applying information—into a subjective value system/philosophy/quasi-religion—sometimes called scientism. Now, a . . . . Continue Reading »
“Out of all the gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers, incompetent & crooked politicians, spies, traitors, and ultra left-wing kooks in all of American history,” asked conservative blogger John Hawkins, “have you ever wondered who the worst of the worst was?” Though I . . . . Continue Reading »
Three days off the grid and I’m feeling good, made even better to see a very good review of A Rat is a Pig is a Dog is a Boy in the American Spectator. From the conclusion of the review by Rev. Michael P. Orsi:Smith debunks activist claims of the need for animal rights, providing . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend Tim Russell, headmaster of Westminster Academy in Memphis, TN, pointed me to a fascinating article in the New York Times by Judith Shulevitz titled, “Creating Sabbath Peace Amid the Noise.” Shulevitz writes:But what if you wanted to revive something like the Sabbath today? What . . . . Continue Reading »
Following up on Heavy Coins, Light Bills , here is an advertisement from Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine : And while I’m at it, here’s another: . . . . Continue Reading »
In a L’Osservatore Romano article titled “Jesus and the Children,” the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments declared that “delaying first communion deprive[s] children . . . of this grace, work and presence of Jesus, of this . . . . Continue Reading »
Why is the future of reasoned Christian disagreement endangered? Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has a penetrating answer in “Knowing Myself in Christ,” an essay that belongs to The Way Forward?: Christian Voices on Homosexuality (Eerdmans, 2003), edited by Timothy Bradshaw. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Words °°°°°° 2. The Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine °°°°°° 3. Mollie Ziegler Hemingway on Motherhood as Vocation How should Christians think about the Mommy Wars? Vocationally. You may have heard vocation used as a synonym for occupation. But . . . . Continue Reading »
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