I recently reviewed David Swartz’s Moral Minority for Books & Culture . Swartz is a gifted writer, and his book was a pleasure to read. David’s history of the evangelical left is a pleasure to read (and it should be so even for those on the opposite side of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Gene Edward Veith, author of God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in all of Life and Family Vocation: God’s Calling in Marriage, Parenthood, and Childhood (among numerous other books), has a new article on vocation over at Intercollegiate Review . In that article— “How to find your . . . . Continue Reading »
The Bitter Fool David Yezzi, New Criterion The First Pope Francis Book Mark Judge, RealClearBooks Lordship, Millennialism, and Heresy Stelios Vasilis Perdios, Medievalists Urban Planning and the Church ‘Halo Effect’ Lorna Dueck, Globe & Mail Orthodoxy & Oprah-doxy Napp . . . . Continue Reading »
The framers of the North Carolina Constitution of 1776 made it abundantly clear as to what kind of people they wanted to serve in their new state government. Article 32 states: That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, I don’t really know. But that’s what we need right now. Any ideas about where to go for the best reporting and analysis on this? Meantime, a pretty solid blog, Robert Koehler’s Marmot’s Hole , is probably the best bet, even though Robert’s skill-set is more . . . . Continue Reading »
The Crossroads Cultural Center, in conjunction with the American Bible Society, will be hosting a presentation by applied scientist Dr. Giorgio Ambrosio and professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Delaware and First Things Advisory Council member Stephen M. Barr . . . . . Continue Reading »
In a piece recently published in the Wall Street Journal , Suzy Lee Weiss, a high-school senior, claims that colleges have been lying to her for years. She writes: Colleges tell you, “Just be yourself.” That is great advice, as long as yourself has nine extracurriculars, six leadership . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on reforming the Curia : The cast of mind in the Roman Curia must be changed, so that the entire Curia thinks of itself as its many good people now do: as servants of the New Evangelization, not as the twenty-first-century version of a papal court. That means that those curialists who . . . . Continue Reading »
” Throughout, the cardinal was the very picture of tranquility .” Richard John Neuhaus and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, 1988. Read Ratzinger’s lecture on behalf of the Institute on Religion and Public life here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of you may remember Kevin Roose . In 2007, as a student at Brown University, he went undercover for a semester at Liberty University and reflected on his experience in The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University . Here is a . . . . Continue Reading »
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