Don’t Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown Michael Deacon, Telegraph God’s Potbellied Heroes Br. Gabriel Torretta, O.P., Dominicana Is the “Purity Culture” Sexist? Marc Barnes, Bad Catholic The Non-Triumph of Capitalism Samuel Gregg, Public Discourse Letter to the Inhabitants of . . . . Continue Reading »
On October 31, 2017, the Protestant Reformation will turn 500. How ought one commemorate such an epochal, complex, and influential historical development? While the date is still a while off, I have been thinking about the question a lot lately. In part, because my colleague Mark Noll at Notre Dame . . . . Continue Reading »
Karl Rove’s American Crossroads group has a new ad about Hillary Clinton and Benghazi. It isn’t bad for what it is, but the ad is a waste as anything other than a reminder (to donors) of the existence of American Crossroads. It is basically an attack ad for a presidential campaign that . . . . Continue Reading »
If you care for this kind of warning, then let me say that there are probably SPOILERS throughout the following: 1. The Great Gatsby (Dir. Baz Luhrmann, 2013). Nietzsche (there I said it!) says, “What is most difficult to render from one language to another is the tempo of its style.” . . . . Continue Reading »
The following is a rush transcript of the October 18, 2013 edition of “Special Report with Bret Baier.” This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. CHRIS WALLACE, HOST : Good evening. I’m Chris Wallace in for Bret Baier. Following stunning revelations that President . . . . Continue Reading »
Something seems off here . . . via @jneeley78 . . . . Continue Reading »
Naturally I appreciate the kind and intelligent attention to my ideas from Peter Lawler, Richard Reinsch , and Carl Scott. (I would not be dismayed in the unlikely event that the term “Ralphism” caught on, though I might have suggested a term more along the lines of “the . . . . Continue Reading »
The chief prosecutor in Peter Leithart’s recently concluded heresy trial stunned many by converting to Roman Catholicism shortly after bringing his prosecution. Now some are citing his conversion as reason to declare a mistrial : Three Presbyteries of the Presbyterian Church in America . . . . Continue Reading »
From R.R. Reno’s ” Public Square ” in the May issue of First Things . Support First Things by subscribing here . First Things has been updated for the iPad. It has the same elegant style as the print magazine, but we’ve changed the formatting in significant ways to make . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy Flanders, writing about the twentieth-century movement toward unity between the Oriental and Eastern Orthodox Churches (who split over Christological disagreements after the Council of Chalcedon in 451), says that Protestant models of ecumenism paved the way: It was within the WCC that two . . . . Continue Reading »
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