One hundred years ago the English composer Gustav Holst (1874-1934), best known for his series of orchestral tone poems, The Planets , composed a moving choral piece based on Genevan Psalm 86: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FIo9Buho1s&w=298&h=245] The metrical text was apparently . . . . Continue Reading »
In the Catholic League’s latest press release, Bill Donohue argues that the major divinity schools are ignoring Christmas because they don’t have Christmas pictures on their websites and list few if any Christmas services on their calendars. He mentions Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Emory, . . . . Continue Reading »
Readers in the Colorado Springs area will want to know that the editor is speaking: This evening at Marian House, on “The Pious Mind.” The lecture starts at 7:30. Here’s the information . Tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at Colorado College, on “Against Critical Thinking.” . . . . Continue Reading »
While many, following Ross Douthat , may be worrying about future generations, ossuary expert Paul Koudounaris makes an interesting point about those that have come before in an interview with Molly Langmuir: How did the mummies in the Palermo catacombs end up with such nice outfits? For centuries . . . . Continue Reading »
This week’s Economist has a nice story on the revival of traditionalism in the Catholic Church, entitled “A traditionalist avant-garde: It’s trendy to be a traditionalist in the Catholic church.” The usual tropes are there—-the “church hierarchy in Western . . . . Continue Reading »
Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats have succeeded in passing a bill that protects the right to perform ritual circumcisions . Yet it was not a unanimous victory: 434 of the Bundestag’s members voted in favor, one-hundred against, with forty-six abstaining. The opponents—-members . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga on how microphones muffle good preaching : Technology changes things. Perhaps that seems obvious; one need think only of the advances made in areas such as medicine and agriculture in the last century. But when it comes to modern media like radio, television, and the internet, we can . . . . Continue Reading »
Last month, I posted the welcome news that Stanford has started the nation’s first law school clinic focusing on religious liberty . This week, at CLR Forum , the blog of the St. John’s Center for Law and Religion , the new clinic’s director, Jim Sonne, answers a few questions . . . . Continue Reading »
This week, the United States recognized the Syrian National Coalition, an umbrella organization of groups opposed to the Assad regime, as the government of Syria. Now, as everyone knows, the SNC relies heavily on fighters from the al-Nusra Front, an Islamist group that the United States has . . . . Continue Reading »
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