Nestled in the small chapel of the Heart’s Home in Brooklyn, on the floor below the altar, sat a small statue of Mary. As she was on the floor, I hadn’t noticed her until I knelt down below the tabernacle. She was kneeling with her hands resting on her knees, palms facing upward, gazing . . . . Continue Reading »
Graduate students may be interested in attending a two-day conference on moral philosophy in Pamplona, Spain, this March: The Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra and the Social Trends Institute have scheduled a two-day Seminar on Natural Law and Public Reason for graduate . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a good old Anglo Saxon word, but it did not mean to grow angry, scowling, waiting the chance to strike. It meant, simply, to boil. Why didn’t the Anglo Saxons say boil if they meant boil? Or bo’ll, if they were from Southwark? Or . . . . Continue Reading »
Rated P. G. Ed Park, Bookforum A Very Good Year? Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Give Up the Historical Quest Against Jesus John Dickson, ABC Religion & Ethics The Culture of the Copy James Panero, The New Criterion How to Be a Pseudo-Intellectual Victoria Beale, The Book . . . . Continue Reading »
The audience reaction to a debate on the topic “Religious or spiritual or neither?”, writes the English lawyer Peter Smith , made him think. It apparently wasn’t what he expected. Audience questions challenged the contention of Andrew Copson, the chief executive . . . . Continue Reading »
Most of the “rules for blogging” I have come across—like Alan Jacobs’s “ Rules for Deportment for Online Discourse ”—focus on very basic things like avoiding ad hominem attacks and not arguing in bad faith. These rules seem to me to boil down to a general . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Lawler very astutely described the problems of some of the self-employed. Some of those observations also apply to much of the working and middle-classes, and especially families with minor children. The problems of these groups are much more pressing (as a matter of both policy and politics) . . . . Continue Reading »
report: The first-ever examination of the Internet’s impact on adoption, released today, concludes that social media and other elements of this modern technology are having “transformative” effects – positive and negative – on adoption policy, practice and millions of . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Topekan William Marotta sought only to become a sperm donor — but now the state of Kansas is trying to have him declared a father. Nearly four years ago, Marotta donated sperm in a plastic cup to a lesbian couple after responding to an ad they had placed on Craigslist. Marotta and the . . . . Continue Reading »
My book with Sherif Girgis and Ryan Anderson, What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense , was recently published by Encounter Books. Brandon Vogt has now interviewed me for Our Sunday Visitor Newsweekly about the principal themes, claims, and arguments my co-authors and I . . . . Continue Reading »
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