From John Piper’s God Is the Gospel: Meditations on God’s Love as the Gift of Himself The critical question for our generation—and for every generation—is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers of First Things and of this blog are no doubt familiar with Public Discourse , the online journal published by my employer, the Witherspoon Institute . Today PD begins a two-week daily series under the title you see above. As editor Ryan Anderson says, the series looks ahead to . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , R.R. Reno wonders “Does the Tea Party Have a Religion Problem?” Think about it. If you are a liberal of any stripe, then the success of the Tea Party in reshaping the priorities of the Republican Party, and through the Republican Party the debate in . . . . Continue Reading »
Great apes are magnificent animals. They are intelligent. They are closest to us genetically. But they are not us.I bring this up because a professor (of course!) named John C. Matani undercut a perfectly righteous call for us to work harder to protect the world’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The boss around here, R.R. Reno, has a very smart article On the Square this morning: ” Does the Tea Party Have a Religion Problem ?” His criticism of Professors Campbell and Putnam, authors of a recent New York Times op-ed on the Tea Party , is spot on. Except for . . . . Continue Reading »
The language of the Mass will soon be reverting to a richer tone, but it’s a different story over in the field of Biblical studies, where a group of about 200 scholars just published a new translation of the central Christian text. A joint effort of both Protestant and Catholic clergy, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Liberty, Justice, and the Common Good: Political Principles for 2012 and Beyond Public Discourse , Ryan T. Anderson Pondering the Hermeneutic of Suspicion Archdiocese of Washington, Msgr. Charles Pope Be not afraid of evangelicals Washington Post, Lisa Miller How abortion frames conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
The decline of the liberal arts over the past decade has been attributed to everything from the flagging economy to apathetic students. But Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus think at least part of the blame should be put on professors : If students are staying away from those classes, it’s not . . . . Continue Reading »
On September 9, Duke Law School will be hosting a conference exploring the role of theological argument in law through the work of Stanley Hauerwas. The conference is free and open to the public, though attendees are encouraged to RSVP. See here for more information. . . . . Continue Reading »
The NYT certainly has been writing about our emerging brave new world of industrial procreative manufacture and quality control lately. Today’s installment discusses how a new blood test of the mom can detect gender at 7 weeks—without ultrasound that can bond a mother to her gestating . . . . Continue Reading »
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