George Weigel on the future of marriage : In public policy terms, the Catholic critique of gay marriage reflects the Catholic idea of the just state. Rightly understood, marriage is one of those social institutions that exist “prior” to the state: prior in terms of time (marriage existed . . . . Continue Reading »
Update: There remain a few lingering tech issues over at NRO that need to be resolved before the new blog goes live. As soon as they are solved, we will do a redirect so that anyone who comes here, will automatically be sent there. Thanks for all the kind words I have received. . . . . Continue Reading »
President Obama’s generally pretty good speech at the U.N. contains this paragraph: The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or . . . . Continue Reading »
This better not be true: A lawsuit filed in Manhattan accuses an organ collecting organization of pressuring doctors to declare dead and harvest. From the New York Post story:The New York Organ Donor Network pressured hospital staffers to declare patients brain dead so their body parts could . . . . Continue Reading »
Kol Nidre’s Conundrum Helen Plotkin, Tablet Eamon Duffy Resigns over Demotion of Theology School Madeleine Teahan, Catholic Herald (UK) Reformed Resurgence Should Turn Confessional Jason Helopoulos, DeYoung, Restless, and Reformed Reid Attacks Romney on Shared Faith Dan Merica, CNN The . . . . Continue Reading »
1) This is another odds n’ ends sort of post. Let’s begin with Dylan and the most music-heady of the bloggers over at an interesting Christian site called Mockingbird, David Zahl. Zahl takes the recent Rolling Stone interview and highlights some of Dylan’s more religious language . . . . . Continue Reading »
The rumor is that Harvard Theological Review is now declining to publish Karen King’s paper (available here as a draft pdf) on the Coptic fragment she calls the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife.” It’s a rumor that appears to be true, as New Testament scholar Craig Evans writes: . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Iranian ministers have fretted for years about a “marriage crisis” in the country. The average age when people wed has climbed since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, causing concern among officials, as well as family elders, that Iranians may stray from a traditional pious path . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t want to be one of those women who spends all her time denigrating other women’s life choices, but I have to say that of all the tattoos to get, the full text of William Carlos Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow” has got to be one of the worst imaginable. . . . . Continue Reading »
The blogger called Miss Self-Important has said in response to this post of mine that my hostility to meritocracy, far from being radical, is now the consensus view, especially among meritocrats themselves. This is wonderful if true. She also says that critics of meritocracy who themselves have . . . . Continue Reading »
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