I am probably the only Baptist on the planet that looks forward to the pop cultural pronouncements of the Vatican’s daily newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano . I sit by the internet for months waiting to see what they’re going to come up with next. Seriously, I love those guys. Their . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend points out that the rate of attrition of American Jews is much higher than the standard estimates suggest. After a million Russian Jewish immigrants and perhaps half that number of Israelis, the numbers of American Jews remain static — which implies that a comparable number of . . . . Continue Reading »
The following is a transcript of part one of Gayle Trotter’s podcast interview with Dr. Mark Olson, president of the John Leland Center for Theological Studies in Falls Church, Va.To listen to the interview, click here.Gayle: This is Gayle Trotter. I’m sitting in the offices of . . . . Continue Reading »
The former CIA agent turned pundit, Reuel Marc Gerecht, offers a rambling defense of Sharia (sort of) in the New Republic website. He doesn’t like what his conservative colleagues say about Sharia (which he keeps calling “The Holy Law”), but he doesn’t say what it is. Kant . . . . Continue Reading »
Reviewing a book titled The Son of Man written by François Mauriac (a French Roman Catholic who wrote about the problems of good and evil in human nature and in the world), Flannery O’Connor writes:He proposes in the place of that anguish that Gide called the Catholic’s ‘cramp . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in our December 2009 issue, we published a While We’re At It needling Conservapedia , the curious online home of the Conservative Bible Project . The underpinnings of that project, it seemed, stressed conservatism first and Christianity second. Sneering leftist hermeneuts, it’s . . . . Continue Reading »
“People apologize about four times a week,” but they apologize much more often to strangers (22% of the time) than to “romantic partners (11%) or family members (7%). The only folks we apologize to more? Friends (46%).” In literary news, Alvaro Vargos Llosa discusses his . . . . Continue Reading »
The National Primate Liberation Week should be renamed “Let’s Keep Humans Suffering Week,” as its goal is to end medical research on monkeys and other primates.If we did that, tremendous strides to alleviate human suffering would be thwarted. Here is just a very short and . . . . Continue Reading »
Lots of news outlets covered the story that Carla Bruni, famously scandalous third wife of the French president, had been effectively banned from the Vatican. ( CNN, for one .) The story was, as you might have guessed, completely wrong . It came from a satirical magazine, for one thing. Think of a . . . . Continue Reading »
I have deja vu! The UN is again pushing hysteria, warning that we are killing the planet. This time it isn’t global warming, but as I pointed out here previously, destruction of habitat. From the story:A U.N. biodiversity conference aims to address a simple problem: “We are . . . . Continue Reading »
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