From the Washington Times : A South Carolina valedictorian garnered wild applause after he ripped up his pre-approved speech and delivered the Lord’s prayer at his high school graduation on Saturday. The act was apparently in protest of the Pickens County School District’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The Catholic Church’s deployment of the language of “human rights”, thanks to Pope John XXIII’s encyclical Pacem in Terris , says George Weigel in today’s column , has helped magnify its moral voice in world affairs. The universal resonance of Pacem in Terris . . . . Continue Reading »
The public health vacuum created by the Supreme Court, says Clarke D. Forsythe in today’s column , will continue to threaten the lives and health of women and enable more Kermit Gosnells to operate “house of horrors” clinics: Because the Justices foolishly believed that . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Cuomo’s abortion bill may lead to forced abortions, warns New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan in a June 4 press release issued jointly with the bishops of New York state: We are profoundly distressed by the introduction of a bill in New York State today that would ease restrictions . . . . Continue Reading »
In my post “Why We Don’t Have Lutheran Baptists,” I wrote, “Both reformers, Martin Luther and John Calvin, had similar doctrines of soteriology.” Since that post went up, my inbox has been peppered with alerts from Google notifying me that Lutheran bloggers and commenters . . . . Continue Reading »
So another book I’ve started to read is Remi Brague, ON THE GOD OF THE CHRISTIANS (St. Augustine’s Press—thanks, again, to Bruce Fingerhut!). It was expertly translated by our Paul Seaton. This Brague seems to have read everything, and you have to read him to see why the God who . . . . Continue Reading »
Conscience and Its Enemies [audio] John J. Miller & Robert P. George, National Review The “Minor” Aesthetic Categories Adam Jasper, Bookforum The Problem with Praise Teams T. David Gordon, Second Nature American Literature and American Democracy Colin M. Brown, Signpostings . . . . Continue Reading »
Next week, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) will hold its annual meeting in Houston, TX. Over the last several decades, the SBC’s public profile has increased significantly due to the actions of its leaders and as a result of the media scrutiny that has come from solidly . . . . Continue Reading »
We often hear that friendship is undervalued today because it’s been eclipsed by romantic love. If marriage (or simply sexual partnerships of one sort or another) are the places to experience true love, then friendship gets demoted. But in his book The Feast of Friendship Paul O’Callaghan . . . . Continue Reading »
Yeah I know I’m late to the party, but here are my two cents, 1. It seems that Bachmann has made her greatest cultural mark as a focus of liberal self-congratulation. I don’t think sneering at a backbench House member who finished dead last in the one presidential delegate selecting . . . . Continue Reading »
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