My friends at The Tablet, a Jewish-interest webzine, are running a week-long series on Turkey’s ominous shift to Islamism. The editors write:The transformation of Turkey from close military and strategic ally to bitter public enemy may be the most consequential blow Israel has sustained in the . . . . Continue Reading »
“‘May his name be blotted out!’ declares the most terrible Hebrew curse,” begins the latest Spengler column, written by our senior editor David P. Goldman. History has devised a curse more terrible still, that is, to have one’s memory blotted out, all except for a name . . . . Continue Reading »
If I told you that an American church was having a Dr. Seuss themed supper and communion, how many guesses would I have to give you before you figured out it was Episcopalian church? Just one? That’s what I thought. Who else would have a “Seusscharist”? Here’s the announcement . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Ross D. judiciously notes that this large and diverse movement that is the Tea Party includes both strange and fringey and responsible and sensible elements. There are some Birchers, racists, conspiracy theorists, hyper-libertarians, and perhaps a few ex-witches. But the center of the Tea Party . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s “On the Square,” article, No Mere Christianity , I discuss the defects of Lewis’s famous idea and its most famous expression as a way of understanding Christian unity. It is, I think, implicitly imperialistic. . . . . Continue Reading »
Extracts from today’s Spengler essay at Asia Times Online:http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/LJ19Ak01.htmlWhy call not it a ‘Petraeus Village’?By Spengler“May his name be blotted out!” declares the most terrible Hebrew curse. History has devised a curse more . . . . Continue Reading »
Msgr. Charles Pope, of the archdiocese of Washington, wrote a helpful post yesterday titled, ” Can a Catholic Accept Evolutionary Theory Uncritically? ” Although he addresses it to Catholics, I think most of my fellow evangelicals would agree with his approach: It is common to . . . . Continue Reading »
An interesting essay in the on-line NYT, by the primatologist Frans de Waal, gave me a bit of ideological whiplash. In “Morals Without God?” he attacks both human exceptionalism and the idea that science can produce morality. He is right about the latter assertion and wrong . . . . Continue Reading »
The use of what he calls “bang words” (obscenities included for effect), writes Barton Swaim, is “rhetorical cheating. It’s the forensic equivalent of pulling out a knife to win an argument.” In Oh, the Profanity! , he notes that in a Youtube video of the movies’ . . . . Continue Reading »
A parable produced by Beyond Relevance , which calls itself “an innovative blog for a culturally strategic church: What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? I was amused, anyway. The writer of Beyond Relevance works in a different ecclesial world than I do, and thinks the church and her life . . . . Continue Reading »
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