African literature has done a great deal to form the conventional wisdom about the cultural side of colonialism, that conventional wisdom being that African societies used to be communitarian, spiritual, and close to nature, but then these virtues were eroded by contact with the individualistic, . . . . Continue Reading »
at Verily: In 1960, the median age of marriage for women was 20. Today, it is 27. While our grandmothers had no qualms about walking down the aisle in their early twenties, today anyone thinking about marriage under the age of 25 gets a lot of advice about not rushing into things. Marrying young is . . . . Continue Reading »
Ignatius Press has been for some time promoting this new film based on the life of St. Augustine. I saw it the other night at one of the public showings that Christian groups are encouraged to sponsor, and while the rest of the largely church-going and Catholic-student-group audience seemed . . . . Continue Reading »
with Julie Klam: ...Friendships, to many of us, are part of the fundamental infrastructure of our emotional lives, and when Klam and I spoke about the book, she made exactly this comparison when she explained why she wanted to write about friendship in the first place. Her inspiration wasn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Looks like we’ll have to update our house bio: Alan Jacobs, Clyde S. Kilby professor of English at Wheaton College, has accepted a new post as Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Baylor University’s Honors College. A coup indeed for Baylor! . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s unexpected story: from Metro , a thin tabloid distributed at the subway during morning rush hour, comes Jets’ Tebow Gets Support from “Jews for Tebow” . The group has 4,000 members, who according to a founder quoted in the story tend to like Tebow more for his . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week I mentioned that our friend and advisory board member Timothy George had gone to Rome at the pope’s invitation as a fraternal delegate to the general assembly of the Synod of Bishops. Timothy is, as readers may know, a Southern Baptist, and was there representing the Baptist . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel asks “What Kind of Country Do You Want?” : Do you want to live in an America that is recovering a sense of decency, a country in which moral conviction born of biblical faith is welcomed in public life, and neither the culture nor the government deplore biblical morality . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, says the head of the Hebrew Studies Department at Tanta University in Egypt, Muhammad Galaa Idris. In an interview on Egypt’s Al-Rahma TV, he informs us that Pope Benedict XVI is either Jewish or has been “Judaized”: The Egyptian academic said this in . . . . Continue Reading »
In certain parts of the south and southwest, it is hard to distinguish football from religion. Some high school cheerleaders in Texas have tied them together too closely for the taste of the Washington Post editorial board . Applying the journalistic version of the Supreme Court’s endorsement . . . . Continue Reading »
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