Today’s Inside Higher Ed brings word of yet another NLRB decision requiring a Catholic University to permit a labor union to attempt to organize its adjunct faculty. This time, it’s St. Xavier University in Chicago. A few months ago , it was Manhattan College . In both . . . . Continue Reading »
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Many of our readers are interested in the question of how Christian colleges and universities evaluate and document their identity. We can talk about curricula, hiring principles, governance, and many other factors. A ruling this week from the National Labor Relations Board has declared . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington Post reports a comic incident in the Chinese battle for identity that seems more appropriate for a Walker Percy novel than real life: last month a wealthy urbanite forced a delivery van packed with pooches destined for dinner tables off the road and sparked a 15-hour roadside siege . . . . Continue Reading »
Emoticons are a form of informal punctuation, akin to the more formal exclamatory (!) and interrogative (?) punctuation marks. Although they are not yet suitable for formal written works, there is nothing wrong—assuming that, like the em dash, they are used sparingly—in sprinkling them . . . . Continue Reading »
The “Shakespeare was a Catholic” theory gets a boost from an unlikely source: the Archbishop of Canterbury . Dr Rowan Williams discussed the themes with Simon Russell Beale, the great Shakespearean actor, in one of the most eagerly-anticipated talks of the Hay Festival. Little is known . . . . Continue Reading »
This passage from Marilynne Robinson’s The Death of Adam makes me wonder whether we should have celebrated the 450th anniversary of the Geneva Bible last year in preference to observing the 400th of the King James Version this year:“The Geneva Bible, first published in 1560, was a very . . . . Continue Reading »
What went wrong with the ELCA? Russ Saltzman asks today in his On the Square column . Membership in the denomination that was supposed to unite two-thirds of American Lutheranism is “poised to dip below four million, and the number of congregations below nine thousand,” the denomination . . . . Continue Reading »
Every once in awhile the ACLU defends actual civil liberties and makes me think that maybe they aren’t so bad after all. But it doesn’t take long before they go and do something to remind me why the organization is deserving of contempt : The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing . . . . Continue Reading »
Four children ages 9, 7, 5 and 3 from a homeschooling Catholic family in Notre-Dame-des-Bois in Québec, Canada have been ordered into public school for socialization and non-phonics reading instruction. As Lydia McGrew explains : This case from Canada, which one would like to think . . . . Continue Reading »
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