Paul Tripp offers a refreshing perspective on parenting : Parenting is all about living by the principle of prepared spontaneity . You don’t really know what’s going to happen next. You don’t really know when you’ll have to enforce a command, intervene in an argument, confront a . . . . Continue Reading »
“As our post-modern society becomes increasingly post-faith, our instincts to raise up entertainers as idols become more frequently indulged, and perhaps we manufacture more of these idols now,” writes Elizabeth Scalia in today’s “On the Square” article, An Idol Season . . . . Continue Reading »
Someone recently asked a large group of people in an informal e-mail discussion group for advice about a visit to Rome. Some people gave him advice about what to wear and where to stay, and some about what to see. Three of the latter, who seem to have been blessed to go several times, have let me . . . . Continue Reading »
I just read that former Vice President Dick Cheney may decide to obtain a heart transplant. From the story:The potential for a heart transplant: “What’s happened over time is the technology’s gotten better and better and we’ve gotten more and more experience with people . . . . Continue Reading »
I thought that language which dehumanized women was supposed to be verboten. But in the procreation as manufacture world of IVF, surrogate mothers, who used to be known as birth mothers, are now called “gestational carriers.” As in the recent birth of a child for Nicole Kidman and . . . . Continue Reading »
A little late, but today’s “On the Square” column, The Reasons the Heart Wants , takes up the now somewhat fashionable dismissal of apologetic writing as ineffective, divisive, and the like. This seems to me a great mistake and a practical failure in charity, based on a simplified . . . . Continue Reading »
So now we are being told by novelist Martin Amis that euthanasia is an “evolutionary inevitability.” From the story:Martin Amis is to campaign for the laws on assisted suicide to be reformed. The author, who caused an outcry last year when he called for euthanasia booths to be . . . . Continue Reading »
Clifford May on the war against the Christians : Imagine if Muslims in Europe were being arrested for nothing more than peacefully practicing their religion. Imagine if Muslims in South America were being sentenced to death for “insulting” Jesus. Imagine if mosques were being bombed and . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell Moore on racial justice and the “Godness of God” : The struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in this country wasn’t simply a “political” question. It wasn’t merely the question of, as Martin Luther King Jr. put it from before the Lincoln Memorial, . . . . Continue Reading »
“Fifty years after the break in relations, while Cuba is still ruled by a male, white, militaristic, totalitarian gerontocracy, Barack Obama is the president of the United States and Hillary Clinton the secretary of state,” writes a Yale professor who left Cuba at 17 in Exiled by Ike, . . . . Continue Reading »
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