Here’s a very fine essay criticizing the Coen Brother’s film for omitting so much from the original Charles Portis book and adding so much also. It’s the essay our Robert Cheeks wanted to read back in January, when we pomocons went nuts over the film in several threads, and it . . . . Continue Reading »
Years ago, I lived near a church that was one of six scattered along the New England coast whose pastors and members believed themselves all ( all ) that was left of the Church in the world. One of my housemates started going to this church, though he never joined, and after a few months dragooned . . . . Continue Reading »
One of today’s On the Square pieces features remarks by Archbishop Charles J. Chaput from a session on religious freedom at World Youth Day in Madrid. In her World Youth Day diary entry for today, Anna Halpine describes the young attendees’ enthusiastic response to the call to . . . . Continue Reading »
Several weeks ago I had the pleasure of viewing a newly-restored edition of Fritz Lang’s Metropolis , a masterpiece of film by most critics’ accounts, in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park. This silent work from 1927 contains a number of observations and prophecies about the tendencies of . . . . Continue Reading »
God and country music: Despite all the drinking and cheating, genre comfortable with religious themes Deseret News , Rhett Wilkinson The Failure of Liberal Bioethics New York Times , Ross Douthat Survey: Most Catholics unaware of Mass revisions OSV Newsweekly , Melissa A. Cidade Report: . . . . Continue Reading »
This part is on the aristocratic characer of Eugenia . . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study reveals that, contrary to the claims of the New Atheist crowd, the more educated tend to be more not less religious: After analyzing data from a large national survey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel found that people actually tend to become more religious - . . . . Continue Reading »
One’s own self is hard to get around. I have pictures of me standing in school pictures of the whole first or second grade class. It was a photograph of the whole lot of us kids, and when the print was made my eyes would look at that group and greedily find myself first. How did I look? Was I . . . . Continue Reading »
[Editor’s note: The following is a guest by Brian Auten, a member of a Sovereign Grace Ministries affliliated church in Fairfax, Virginia.]Yesterday, Tim Challies offered some thoughts about what I would argue—and he himself admitted—is a narrowly defined aspect of Sovereign Grace . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter, here’s the link for the The New Republic piece on Perry’s “convenient conversion to radical evangelicalism.” What the conversion amounts to, outside of political moves, is this: “ . . . growing up Methodist, [Perry] belonged to the mainline tradition that counts . . . . Continue Reading »
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