Founders Chic Thomas S. Kidd, Books & Culture The Baptist Bearing Robes and Incense William E. Yoder, Christianity Today St. Joseph, Protector of Preachers Br. Gabriel Torretta O.P., Dominicana Equality and Marriage Ryan T. Anderson, The Foundry Aliens and Strangers Marvin Olasky & Os . . . . Continue Reading »
The redoubtable Fr. Robert Barron, in one of his regular (and regularly illuminating) forays into film criticism (when does this guy have time to go to the movies?), reviewed the new Superman movie Man of Steel at RealClearReligion. I recommend the review—not sure about the movie, on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Surprise, surprise: A song from Kanye West’s new album has drawn a lot of controversy. “Blood on the Leaves” gets its most prominent sample from Nina Simone’s rendition of “Strange Fruit”: Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees Blood on the leaves No one seems to . . . . Continue Reading »
“The world has heard enough of the so-called ‘rights of man.’ Let it hear something of the rights of God.” A powerful proposition—startling, perhaps even dangerous. When Pope Leo XIII uttered these words at the turn of the twentieth century, he issued a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Gang of Eight’s immigration proposal “does not solve the problem of mass illegal immigration, but instead extends the problem,” says Pete Spiliakos in today’s column . The Gang of Eight bill would create a laboring class—some tied to particular jobs—that . . . . Continue Reading »
“After twenty-five years Richard Land has retired as president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission,” says Mark D. Tooley in today’s column . In his good-bye to the Southern Baptist Convention in Houston on June 11, Land declared: . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me begin with a disclaimer. I spent 13 years as a student in the public-school system. My mother just retired after teaching in the public-school system for more than 28 years. I married a public-school teacher, though she quit after our first child was born. My wife’s mother was a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Early Church, Wealth, and Poverty Dylan Pahman, Acton Institute In and Out, In a Blaise of Glory David Mathis, Desiring God A Populist Republican Immigration Agenda Pete Spiliakos, National Review Stop Taking Orwell’s Name in Vain Jason Slotkin, Atlantic A Gratis Copy of Jayber Crow . . . . Continue Reading »
While rereading Edmund Morgan’s magisterial American Slavery, American Freedom , I was struck by his discussion of public penance performed by early Virginian fornicators and adulterers. The courts, for example, prescribed penances for couples who appeared with children too soon after . . . . Continue Reading »
You can produce an immigration policy that is all three. I have some thoughts about it over at National Review Online . . . . . Continue Reading »
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