So, a pal and I go to see The Three Stooges last night: Woob! Woob! Woob! Woob! I just wanted to forget the world and revisit my long lost boyhood when my friends and I would roar at the Stooges on TV after school.The movie was almost perfect. It really captured the spirit . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Bellah’s recent tome Religion in Human Evolution attempts to revive the grand narrative approach to history (which has been in a bit of a rough patch since, say, 1989) but it does so more-or-less in the context of a scientific theory of evolution, and it places religion . . . . Continue Reading »
French Elections: Far Left and Far Right Gavin Hewitt, BBC A Question for Time Magazine Kathryn Jean Lopez, Patheos Has Religious Freedom Lost Its Cool? Mikhail Bell, Institute on Religion & Democracy Evangelicals’ Sea Change on Conversion Gordon T. Smith, . . . . Continue Reading »
Vatican watcher Rocco Palmo flags the Wednesday release of a four-year-long study of women religious. Even the most casual observer knows that many female orders are, well, in disorder. A particular virulent version of the post-Vatican II flu ran through various orders of nuns, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Three writers at The Gospel Coalition ( Ray Van Neste , Eric Bancroft , and Kenneth J. Stewart ) debate the issue of communion frequency in Protestant churches. From Van Neste’s essay: . . . in our man-centered age where so many services are shamefully devoid of any meaningful reference . . . . Continue Reading »
Much ink has been spilled (if that’s still an intelligible expression in this digital age) about the likely evangelical resistance to voting for Mitt Romney. But, to my mind, the recent Pew poll paints a different picture. Here’s what we learn: Protestants favor Romney . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, the 27th of Nissan in the Jewish calendar, marks the State of Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s been seven decades now, but the sheer magnitude of the tragedy still resonates powerfully for Jews both in Israel and across the globe. But the focus is not only on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Cantirino on Sergius Bulgakov’s religious materialism : Sergius Bulgakov, widely regarded as the greatest Orthodox theologian of the twentieth century (calling him the von Balthasar of the East would not be wide of the mark), was the kind of religious thinker only that century could . . . . Continue Reading »
A Canadian pundit named Kelly McParland has a good critique of how IVF has devolved procreation into consumerist reproduction. He writes in reaction to an American IVF clinic advertising sex selection, meaning that all embryos of the “wrong sex” become medical waste based on . . . . Continue Reading »
As many of you know, Chuck Colson, found of Prison Fellowship and one of the conveners of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, has been in critical condition following a surgery. Prison Fellowship released the following statement on his worsening condition: Dear Friends: It is with a heavy, but . . . . Continue Reading »
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