asks: A New Hampshire school district bans dodgeball . A Georgia school sends a kindergartener off in handcuffs . A Florida high school is shut down when a student brings in a mercury thermometer . Across the country, schools and school districts are overreacting to . . . . Continue Reading »
On Monday Brother Dominic Verner wrote of his happy discovery of the statue of Father Francis Duffy in Times Square (that part of the square is actually officially titled “Duffy Square”). Readers will want to know more about this priest and t he wikipedia entry is a good place to start. . . . . Continue Reading »
When valedictorian Roy Costner IV ripped up his graduation speech yesterday and prayed the Lord’s prayer, he dealt a defiant riposte to the atheist whining which had prevailed over his South Carolinian school district. His prayer garnered an exuberant round of Southern hoots, hollers, and . . . . Continue Reading »
BIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
Some months ago Fathers Thomas Joseph White and Austin Litke, O.P., played bluegrass music at the World Youth Alliance headquarters here in New York. They’re good, and to be frank they also look kinda out-there. It’s not often that you see two guys in white habits playing guitar . . . . Continue Reading »
In his “City Meditations” series (which you really should be reading), Alan Jacobs offers a critique of Wendell Berry’s 2012 Jefferson Lecture . Berry’s “Boomers and Stickers,” he points out, is a nice rhetorical device, but break down as categorical tools . . . . Continue Reading »
Read part one in this multi-part history here . Both a zealous commitment to congregational autonomy and a strong impulse toward cooperative ministry underlie the organizational history of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Throughout the history of the denomination, Southern Baptist leaders . . . . Continue Reading »
Since 1938, Finland has issued a maternity pack to expectant mothers that includes clothes, sheets, and toys, and for many newborns, the box it all comes in is their first bed. The tradition is now “an established part of the Finnish rite of passage towards motherhood, uniting . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Demise of Hoboken and Places Like It Nick Moran, The Millions When the Mainline Told Us What to Read Matt Hedstrom, Christian Century Emperors, the Church, and the Jews of the Diaspora Fergus Millar, Medievalists When Love Turns into Tolerance Fr. Robert Barron, Catholic News Agency Ira . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking at the Women’s Development Conference last week in Kuala Lumpur, the renowned Princeton bioethicist claimed that “overriding” procreation could be necessary to prevent environmental catastrophe, drawing an analogy between childbearing and calving in the process: . . . . Continue Reading »
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