The St. Ambrose Society at St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary is sponsoring a free and public lecture titled “On the Corpse and the Chaplain: How Medicine is Destroying Pastoral Care” with Dr. Jeffrey P. Bishop M.D., Ph.D . Monday, March 25 7:30 p.m. . . . . Continue Reading »
Check out Valerie Weaver-Zercher ’s great piece on Amish romance novels at LA Review of Books . Weaver-Zercher is the author of Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels (John Hopkins UP). I must confess that I knew nothing about Amish romance novels . . . . Continue Reading »
William Cornysh served as a court composer to Henry VIII. While he wrote liturgical works, he also set the poem “Woefully Arrayed” to music for domestic use and private devotion. The music and words are well worth pondering as the Passion approaches. This recording comes from the . . . . Continue Reading »
In recent decades pundits and some scholars have made much of the post-WWII evangelical resurgence, coupled with a precipitous post-1965 mainline decline. For evangelicals, the post-WWII religious boom kept going for the rest of the century, whereas in terms of membership, the mainline segment of . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Powerline, an interesting post and a more interesting thread on whether conservatives can close the “Pop Culture Gap.” One guy even laments that the Republicans blew by not taking the book South Park Conservatives to heart! So, apparently the day of vindication of Paul Cantor , . . . . Continue Reading »
Pilate Said to Him Raphael Forbing, O.P., Dominicana A Bunch of Nobodies Mark Greif, n+1 Why I Changed My Mind on Baptism Sean Michael Lucas, Gospel Coalition To Grow the Economy, Grow People James Poulos, Forbes Abelard’s Legacy: Theology Is Not ‘Faith Seeking Understanding’ . . . . Continue Reading »
After speaking of the HBO series Girls and its brilliant stupidity, I received nothing but remarks about how following that show must be indicative of deep depravity on my part—even though I called the show crap in my title. In my post, I took the show seriously because I think what is not . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Ferguson informs and amuses at The Weekly Standard about that other orthodoxy in, “The Heretic: Who is Thomas Nagel and why are so many of his fellow academics condemning him?” It is longish, but I liked it and for possibly unnatural reasons, thought some of you might like it, . . . . Continue Reading »
via basically my entire Twitter feed, for entirely understandable reasons: RICHMOND — The girls ages 6 to 16 sit in order of size in the drab lobby of the Richmond City Jail, their glittery shoes swinging back and forth. “I don’t like it here,” says Jhaniyika Morman, 6, who . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m under the weather and not feeling well (or at least that is the story I’m going with), 1. This is progress. Rich Lowry notes that the divide between the Republican “establishment” and the “grassroots” is going nowhere. Conservatives and the rest of America are being badly served and . . . . Continue Reading »
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