To find the answer, you’ll have to come to this year’s Merton Lecture at Columbia University on Monday, October 17, which will be delivered by our editor, R. R. Reno. Following in the vein of some of his recent writing , the lecture will likely be deeply-considered and perhaps even a . . . . Continue Reading »
Portland is experiencing a suicide crisis. From the Oregonian story:The number of suicides in Oregon — which has a suicide rate 35 percent higher than the national average — keeps climbing. According to the state’s violent death report, there were 566 suicides in 2008, 641 in 2009 . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was a kid, there was a huge controversy surrounding a concerted federal government/dental community pus to put fluoride in our drinking water as a way of reducing tooth decay. As I recall—and my memory is vague because I didn’t pay any attention at the time—the John . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Russell E. Saltzman explains the problems with the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP): I no longer believe the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) is in any way primarily an advocacy organization for sexual abuse victims. . . . . Continue Reading »
Obama’s Faith-Based Office appointee, Rev. Dr. Nancy Wilson, has recently written a rather striking piece for the Huffington Post, “ Should DOMA Dogma Be Law? ” Wilson fairly unloads her cartridge, implicating Timothy Dolan and the Catholic Church’s teaching on gay-marriage as . . . . Continue Reading »
The Moral Dimensions of Illegal Immigration PajamasMedia, Victor Hanson Inconvenient Truths About Homosexuality Crosswalk.com , Stan Guthrie Does Faith Mean a Better College Education? FRC Blog , Rob Schwarzwalder Catholics Express Unsettling Words in Response To Translation of Mass Washington . . . . Continue Reading »
We’re in the middle of our Fall fundraising campaign, a new effort to raise funds for the mission and work of the First Things website. I hope you will step forward to be counted among those who give. The First Things website does many things. We provide one and often two (and sometimes even . . . . Continue Reading »
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia, (On The Square: “ Putinism and the Ukrainian Catholic Church ” ) spiked the moment former Ukrainian Prime Minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, received the maximum, seven-year prison sentence for her part in negotiating a natural gas contract that obliges the . . . . Continue Reading »
A common criticism of Evangelicals is that we are dogmatic. Since we do in fact have dogma, this would appear fatal. If you don’t like dogma, you will not like us.It does not help to point out that non-Evangelicals also have dogma. People don’t just dislike dogmatic Evangelicals, they . . . . Continue Reading »
Good news on the IPSC front. Scientists have created working liver cells from skin cells. From the MSNBC story:British scientists have developed a new stem cell technique for growing working liver cells which could eventually avoid the need for costly and risky liver transplants. A team . . . . Continue Reading »
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