Good grief. In a phone call to donors, Mitt Romney explained his defeat by referring to the “free stuff” that Democrats give their constituencies. He said that Obama’s strategy was to “give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government.” I don’t deny the . . . . Continue Reading »
We are within a few weeks of the release of What Is Marriage?: Man and Woman: A Defense , an expanded version of Sherif Girgis, Robert George, and Ryan Anderson’s seminal paper on the same topic. I’ve read an advance copy of the book, and I will have a review forthcoming. For now, in . . . . Continue Reading »
I hope readers have already taken note of George Weigel’s very striking suggestion in these pages yesterday that the Catholic Church should preemptively withdraw from involvement in civil marriage : It seems important to accelerate a serious debate within American Catholicism on whether the . . . . Continue Reading »
Wesley Hill takes up the theology of Rowan Williams in Books and Culture : Lent is the moment in the church’s calendar in which Williams’ theology seems most at home. During the forty days leading up to Easter, we practice abstinence, we repent and discipline our desires, placing . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga on our creative minority moment : Barack Obama’s victory has crushed conservatism, ended the Republic, and ushered in a thousand years of darkness. Or such was the mood last week among many political conservatives, who saw this election’s results as the sign of the death of . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend sends this video with the comment, “‘stylish baptism’ is a combination of words that causes civilizations to crumble.” Some of the advice (“this is not the time to be boobalicious”) is quite sound, though. Update: A commenter below writes, “Of . . . . Continue Reading »
Though the dropping crime rate in the U.S. over the last few decades has been something of a mystery to experts, most agree that key factors are tougher laws and harsher criminal sentences. As a result of such measures we now have the world’s highest incarceration rate , with a . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve heard a lot lately about how the Obama campaign profited immensely from the assistance of some very smart and sophisticated behavioral and social scientists. Sasha Issenberg is a very enthusiastic guide to the various techniques that arguably helped the Democrats to their . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s still more from my (endless) BYU lecture. This part includes issues that I might well have skipped as above my pay grade, except they were of special interest to my audience. Our friends and expert bloggers THE BROTHERS JUDD said my previous post on marriage vs. existential . . . . Continue Reading »
Explaining the Episcopal Battle in South Carolina (audio) Nick Eicher and Jeff Walton, World The Counterintuitive Calvin Tim Keller, The Gospel Coalition A Response to George Weigel’s Marriage Summons Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law The Immaculate Conception and the East Mark Shea, . . . . Continue Reading »
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