blogs at Christianity Today: I read Owen Strachan’s recent rant against a Sesame Street episode in which “Baby Bear” is told it’s OK for boys to play with dolls on the same day my six-year-old son took his Matey Anchors doll to school for show and tell. Maybe my reaction . . . . Continue Reading »
The Economist , where coverage of religion in the past has ranged vastly from snarky and ill-informed to perceptive and subtle , has launched a new blog on the intersection of religion and public policy. Dubbed “Erasmus,” it will have a particular focus on religious freedom . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you who don’t have the kinds of friends I do and therefore haven’t gotten this link several times already: Lutheran Satire presents Choose Your Pope! It’s a truly ecumenical gesture. . . . . Continue Reading »
David Bentley Hart on the natural law : There is a long, rich, varied, and subtle tradition of natural law theory, almost none of which I find especially convincing, but most of which I acknowledge to be—according to the presuppositions of the intellectual world in which it was . . . . Continue Reading »
Realism Is Not Reality Daniel Siedell, Books & Culture Persecution in China Is Very Real Bob Fu, Christianity Today Why Does Death Still Surprise Us? Trevin Wax, Kingdom People Pope and Oscar, Body and Spirit Lorenzo Albacete, Il Sussidiario Aquinas and Everyday Emotions David . . . . Continue Reading »
at the Huffington Post: Stephanie slips the brown paper sleeve off a Starbucks drink and starts tearing it artfully. A small hut emerges. “My vacation home,” she says wistfully. Stephanie could use a vacation. Her last one was a weekend trip with her ex-boyfriend to the caves in . . . . Continue Reading »
“I was glad to have hit the first home run in this park. God only knows who will hit the last,” said Babe Ruth of the old Yankee stadium. Technically that was José Molina, but I like to think it was Benedict XVI. While we’re all swapping tales, I saw him in that . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t do enough to recommend this Ross Douthat blog post about the David Frum-William Voegeli exchange over at the Claremont Review of Books. Douthat agrees with Voegeli that it is a good (and necessary) thing that Republicans followed Paul Ryan in embracing premium support Medicare because . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, probably not, but while we’re discussing the intersection of religion and Playboy bunnies here at First Things , I thought I’d share this curious artifact : The heraldic image above actually comes from the Hastings Hours (a private devotional book) in the British . . . . Continue Reading »
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