Does anyone not know the story of Icarus? . . . let us imagine that young Icarus manages to actually live through this ordeal: he falls back into the labyrinth . . . bruised but still alive. . . . He has to go back to normal life after having thought himself capable of attaining the sun . . . Today . . . . Continue Reading »
You are going to die. How’s that for a cheerful lede? But it is true. You are going to die. So am I. No escape. Deal with it constructively.Some say that when humans became aware of death, we invented religion for that precise purpose. But materialists don’t . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been much hype surrounding Ridley Scott’s movie Prometheus released today. An alleged prequel to the sci-fi/horror/thriller classic Alien (1979), the director Scott was always hesitant to speak of it in such prequel terms, and instead spoke of it in larger and vaguer terms—and . . . . Continue Reading »
It was early Saturday afternoon, and we were making our way uptown to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. My friend and I were each absorbed in our own paperwork as we sat on the subway. She, a high school teacher, was intent on grading tests and quizzes from weeks previous, and I was lost in . . . . Continue Reading »
Elmer Thiessen on the offensiveness of evangelism : The topic of evangelism made national headlines in Canada recently. It all started with a twelfth grade student in Nova Scotia wearing a T-shirt boldly emblazoned with the words, “Life is wasted without Jesus.” William Swinimer continued . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Schjeldahl’s post on Klimt’s “Adele” got me thinking. The thirty-five million dollar painting, he says, “isn’t a peculiarly incoherent painting, as I had once thought. It’s not a painting at all, but a largish, flattish bauble: a thing. It is . . . . Continue Reading »
As Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Diamond Jubilee this week (and temporarily causes Americans to pine, if not for monarchy, then for the kind of institutional stability and nondemocratic transcendence she embodies), a number of stories have cropped up mentioning her faith, which is usually . . . . Continue Reading »
Some observers criticized the Obama Administration for trying to intimidate the Supreme Court after the Solicitor General’s apparently disastrous oral argument in favor of the law. Supposedly, the people would rise up in fury if the Supremes dared interfere with the carefully . . . . Continue Reading »
The Theologian-hood of All Believers Steve Harmon, ABP Blog New Fetal Genome Scan Will Test Society Wesley J. Smith, The Corner Why is Faulkner So Under-Read? David Harvey, The Economist On “Imposing Your Will” on Others Fr. Robert Barron, Word on Fire . . . . Continue Reading »
Darwinian Larry likes my comparison of him and Sheldon Cooper. Larry continues to have a rather traditional Southern Baptist view—“I’ll fly away”—of heaven. Still, his questions are serious. If you scroll through his most serious website, he considers the possibility . . . . Continue Reading »
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