A particularly amusing book came across my desk recently. It’s Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans by David Niose, a “secular activist” in Washington. This is not a book to turn to for nuance. Here’s a sample: Anti-intellectualism, the disappearing middle . . . . Continue Reading »
Via the New York Times : An elderly woman stepped forward this week to claim responsibility for disfiguring a century-old “ecce homo” fresco of Jesus crowned with thorns, in Santuario de la Misericordia, a Roman Catholic church in Borja, near the city of Zaragoza. Ecce homo, or behold the . . . . Continue Reading »
Many writers don’t understand the significant differences between Modern Orthodox Jews and their Ultra-Orthodox cousins, explains Yair Rosenberg at Tablet . It is the latter community, of course, that tends to insist on exclusively domestic roles for its women, while the former has a . . . . Continue Reading »
“Women tend to be more religious and on average attend church services more often than men. There is also reason to believe that women on average have more conservative views on sexual and lifestyle issues than men. Overall, there is a large body of evidence to suggest that women have more . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga on the Bulverism of same-sex marriage supporters : The problem with making consent the sole criterion of the Good is that it’s merely a social convention. “Consent” is an idea forged in the wake of the widespread death of metaphysics and it thus lacks any ultimate . . . . Continue Reading »
In a nearly 900-page new work that attempts to map an “alternative” to Evangelicalism’s two regnant theological models, Peter Gentry and Stephen Wellum “set out to carve a new path between dispensational and covenant theology, having concluded that neither hermeneutical . . . . Continue Reading »
A new Johns Hopkins study warns of the billions added to health care costs if infant male circumcisions are outlawed. Johns Hopkins experts say the added expense stems from new cases and higher rates of sexually transmitted infections and related cancers among uncircumcised men and their . . . . Continue Reading »
The Wire and the American Underclass Francis Fukuyama, The American Interest Conversations with J. I. Packer Justin Taylor, The Gospel Coalition Does Religious Violence Justify Censorship? Max Fisher, The Atlantic The Return of the Extended Family John Bingham, Telegraph . . . . Continue Reading »
Nathan Harden’s new book ” Sex and God at Yale ” will be of interest to anyone who is concerned about the moral state of campus culture at colleges and universities in the US. Here’s my dust jacket endorsement: The ideology of sexual liberation that is the lasting . . . . Continue Reading »
Well I couldn’t resist (ineptly) posting that photo of the reef-rock that China and the Philippines both claim, but doing so perhaps made the topic seem more humorous than it really is. Bottom line 1: you gotta watch China on every geo-strategic front, and the “spontaneous” . . . . Continue Reading »
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