Evangelizing via Meme Ryan Scheel and Brandon Vogt, Brandon Vogt Stereotypes, Risks, and Jesus: An Interview Mark Driscoll and John Piper, Resurgence Albert O. Hirschman, RIP Alex Tabarrok, Marginal Revolution The Decline of Honor in the Twentieth Century Brett and Kate McKay, Art of Manliness . . . . Continue Reading »
from NYT, via First Things’s TKB: ...American life, as he describes it, simply lacks the fretwork of close, sometimes constricting relationships that take shape around a Russian practically from birth. He writes of “a complete absence of the social institution of the grandmother and . . . . Continue Reading »
Ted Olsen has written a fascinating article inspired by the recent decision of Boston’s Old South Church to sell off one of its two remaining copies of the original edition of the Bay Psalm Book, used liturgically by the New England Puritans in the 17th century: What You Need to Know About . . . . Continue Reading »
One of our brethren, Anthony Esolen, has written to extol that old-fashioned word, brethren . His comments have relevance for that increasingly complicated and contentious enterprise, Bible translation. In the older translations of the New Testament, such as the Geneva Bible and the King James . . . . Continue Reading »
(Please read my previous post first, if you haven’t.) Try to follow me here: Christianity, I was arguing, necessarily implies an ambivalence towards any moral-political culture. On the one hand, it reinforces much conventional moral content by declaring it to be the object of a divine . . . . Continue Reading »
The Associated Press reports on a question posted to Justice Scalia at a lecture at Princeton University : Speaking at Princeton University, Scalia was asked by a gay student why he equates laws banning sodomy with those barring bestiality and murder. [ . . . ] “It’s a form of . . . . Continue Reading »
in The New Republic: ...I also spent those 50-minute sessions wondering: What if my son’s individual experience, meaningless from a statistical point of view, hinted at a collective problem? As my children grew and, happily, thrived (I managed to have my daughter by natural means), I kept . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew , if the apportionment requirement is an insuperable obstacle to direct federal property taxes, then perhaps it is not so “idiotic” after all—-and its “historical origins” are not necessarily “obscure,” n’est-ce pas ? On a more serious note, . . . . Continue Reading »
Today at Public Discourse , Carson Holloway finds a glimmer of hope for the remnants of conscience, and the recognition of what is naturally right and good, in the use of the word “slut” by a California high-school ” Fantasy Slut League ” that has made the news recently. . . . . Continue Reading »