I have long followed and commented on the Freedom From Religion Foundation’s efforts to banish all religious references from the public square. Well, they just lost one , when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the City of Warren’s refusal to include an FFRF message disparaging . . . . Continue Reading »
The Center for Constitutional Rights says in a press release issued this afternoon that the Vatican has been called before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in response to a report issued to the Committee by the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. The UN committee has summoned . . . . Continue Reading »
David Bentley Hart’s column ” Is, Ought, and Nature’s Laws ,” which appeared in our March issue, has sparked quite the online conversation over the past couple weeks. I’ve collected some responses and related posts for those interested in following along; if you know . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart on religious change in the Middle East : Alarming reports have been coming in for years: Christianity is being expelled from the Middle East. According to Walter Russell Mead, more than half of the Christians in Iraq have fled the country since 2003. Today it’s happening in . . . . Continue Reading »
March 1 is the feast of David , the early medieval bishop and missionary who became patron saint of Wales. We actually know strikingly little of David apart from that date, of March 1, but I’m going to suggest that represents a good deal in its own right. Through the Middle Ages, . . . . Continue Reading »
In Habits of the Heart , written almost thirty years ago, sociologist Robert Bellah and his co-authors came up with a term to describe a new American religion: “Sheilaism.” The phrase comes from an interview Bellah conducted with a woman called Sheila, who described her religion as . . . . Continue Reading »
Chairs Br. Philip Neri Reese O.P., Dominicana Benedict’s Lessons for Americans Elizabeth Scalia, The Guardian A Coming Methodist Exodus? John Lomperis, Juicy Ecumenism Conservatives Hindered by Ownership Ideal Mike Konczal, Bloomberg Allegorical Preaching: What Would Calvin Say? Jeffrey . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, February 28, Orthodox Christians observed the feast day of John Cassian, the fourth/fifth-century monastic saint known for his writings on the Desert Fathers and his responses to Augustine’s anti-Pelagian works. Technically, however, his feast day is February 29 , a . . . . Continue Reading »
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