The Journal of Medical Ethics sparked a firestorm last February when it ran the article “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?” They have now devoted an entire issue , much of it open-access, to that topic. Many of its contributors will be familiar names . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman reflects on the hours before his son’s deployment to Afghanistan : I cannot tell you what we talked about; I don’t remember much of it really. Mostly, I spent time simply looking at him, wonderingly. Where did this man come from? When did I first meet him? When did . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Downey Jr. is back as Tony Stark in Iron Man 3 . I found his performance every bit as delightful as previous installments. Though still witty, Tony Stark has lost some of his brashness in this movie. His encounter with aliens in The Avengers has left him shaken and . . . . Continue Reading »
So Richard has the best introduction to Ralphism I’ve read. I’ve also just read an unintentionally (perhaps) a little bit funny blog by Rod Dreher wondering why his (really, really profound and beautiful) Ruthie book hasn’t been picked up by Walmart or embraced by evangelicals. . . . . Continue Reading »
How Lewis Prepared Me for Edwards (audio) John Piper, Desiring God Verdi’s Shakespeare Brett Foster, Books & Culture The Real Story of Church Growth and Decline Christopher Brittain, ABC Religion & Ethics Why is Communist Iconography Still Cool? Dalibor Rohac, Umlaut 800,00o Converts . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the more remarkable aspects of Francis’ pontificate has been his rhetorical style. Whereas Benedict XVI generally spoke in carefully crafted Latin paragraphs, Pope Francis has adopted a more casual style of Italian—-often speaking without prepared notes. Most notable of all, . . . . Continue Reading »
About Pete’s take on the Benghazi matter : I think is fairly clear in testimony that the Obama Administration did lie, did cover-up what had happened, and was totally disingenuous about the whole thing. Judgement call? It was a judgement call and about international . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve never been able to get worked up about the Benghazi attack. I always thought that the refusal to order a prompt rescue mission was judgment call. The story cooked up that the attack was a response to a video was also pretty obviously a lie and a political attempt to prevent the story . . . . Continue Reading »
Geza Vermes died today from a reoccurrence of cancer. Religious studies has lost one of its most erudite and colorful scholars. Vermes was born to Jewish parents and converted to Roman Catholicism with them before WWII. After the war he became a Roman Catholic priest, but then returned to . . . . Continue Reading »
Permit me to connect what I take to be the dots between recent posts on John Milbank and by David T. Koyzis . For fun, you can also take a look at this post by Koyzis on another site. We have made an idol of choice, regarding it as the logical concomitant of our “natural” freedom. But . . . . Continue Reading »
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