There is a school of thought that says physics is the ultimate reality; that everything reduces to subatomic particles mindlessly subject to natural law.The story is told—I don’t remember where I heard it—of two young women sitting in the front row of a concert hall, holding the . . . . Continue Reading »
Enough with the Reluctant Atheists Terry Eagleton, Guardian Working with the Muslims Austin Ruse, Catholic Thing The Parental Happiness Curve W. Bradford Wilcox & Elizabeth Marquardt, MercatorNet Hosanna in the Highest! Michael Stokes Paulsen, Public Discourse Do the Three Abrahamic . . . . Continue Reading »
A man in Zimbabwe was arrested yesterday when, during a routine roadblock and police search, he was found to be carrying a sack of four Gaboon vipers on a bus. Mathew Aidini, 23, was bringing the snakes to Harare in order to sell them to what The Zimbabwean refers to as “an undisclosed . . . . Continue Reading »
He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead . . . But the coat worn by Charles Thomas Wooldridge, the unnamed hangee of “The Ballad of Reading . . . . Continue Reading »
We discussed the new computer model that supposedly can predict how much longer one has to live in the context of whether a patient should be told they have less than ten years. But the NYT’s take on the same story raises another issue we only tangentially touched before; whether a . . . . Continue Reading »
Pete’s bitterly hilarious post below on Romney being authentically vacuous—knowing it, loving it, bragging about it etc.—deserves a wide audience. But it seems to be, in its way, a sad goodbye to Romney bashing or a prelude to a long effort to be in love with MItt. Having read . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend sent me the link to the grimly amusing El Che: The Crass Marketing of a Sadistic Racist by the Heritage Foundation’s Michael Gonzalez. Mercedes Benz, it turns out, just launched a new car in front of a giant picture of Che Guavara with the Mercedes Benz symbol on his . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing for The Atlantic , Owen Strachan offers humorous and insightful answers to the many questions surrounding Tim Tebow: Does he win because God miraculously propels him to victory? Is the “hand of God,” as famous footballer Diego Maradonna called it, directing his passes (or at . . . . Continue Reading »
Douglas Laycock, counsel for the Hosanna-Tabor school (and professor of law at the University of Virginia), offers his thoughts on the decision at CNN: Wednesday’s Supreme Court decision holding that ministers cannot sue their churches for employment discrimination was a huge win for religious . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew J. Franck on what comes after Hosanna-Tabor : Yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court decision in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission , upholding a small Lutheran school’s right to control its employment of . . . . Continue Reading »
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