Somehow I missed soaking in Salinger as a young adult. In this, if my current students are any indication, I am a rarity. They know Catcher in the Rye the way I knew That Hideous Strength. If I worried about being Mark Studdock, then they worried about being another misunderstood Holden Caulfield. Continue Reading »
The National Conference of Catholic Bishops has released the Labor Day Statement by Bishop William F. Murphy, the Chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development. No breaking news, just some well-meaning sentiments and reasonably sound observations. For example, Bishop Murphy . . . . Continue Reading »
A few months ago, I began writing a piece on the teachings of Beth Moore. The fine writers at CT were working on a similar project which became a recent cover story and companion article. There is much to be said about Beth’s influence in the Church that I believe male and female leaders need . . . . Continue Reading »
In Compromise Trumps Apostolic Tradition , George Weigel examines the collapse, through the Anglican insistence on innovating in ways contradictory to the Apostolic tradition, of the “once-promising dialogue” between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion. “As I discovered . . . . Continue Reading »
When it comes to ecology, I’m a firm believer in applying biblical principles of stewardship to the environment. Although it is not always obvious what principles should apply, I believe one of the first is to develop a realistic and accurate assessment of man’s effects on our . . . . Continue Reading »
Although it lingered another sixty years, the Sack of Rome by Alaric the Visigoth in 410 marked the downfall of the empire. Gustav Niebuhr, writing in the Washington Post, finds hope in the fact that the Christian religion survived the destruction of its first state sponsor. That, says Niebuhr, . . . . Continue Reading »
Evangelicals spend a lot of time fighting about Genesis and the proper interpretation thereof. Catholics spend a lot less time on it for reasons which are not fully clear to me. My area of scholarship is religion, law, and politics, so I am far from expert in this controversy as either a . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading this article in The Wilson Quarterly, America: Land of Loners?, has inspired me to return to a topic I took up early last year in my personal blog, Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist. That topic is friendship, something that appears to have eroded in our highly mobile, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pew Research Center has released a new national survey showing that while favorable opinions of Islam have declined since 2005, there has been virtually no change over the past year in the proportion of Americans saying that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence. . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember back in 1996 when everyone was making fun of the Oakland, California school board for declaring “Ebonics” (aka African American Vernacular English ) a language of its own and not a dialect of English? Turns out they may have been on to something . Wanted by the Drug Enforcement . . . . Continue Reading »
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