Joseph Bottum has walked back the most controversial assertions of his barnburner Commonweal essay on gay marriage. For this, I’m glad: Several of them were unsupportable. Yet the essay was never about any point of fact so much as it was about a certain mood: one of surprise . . . . Continue Reading »
A New Catholic-Lutheran Document Charlotte Hays, National Catholic Register The Shape of Rome Ex Urbe Against the Senseless Destruction of Churches Anthony Esolen, Crisis Fathers, Sons, and Chief Rabbis Yehuda Mirsky, Jewish Review of Books Quest for Ethical Stem Cells Prompts Moral Questions . . . . Continue Reading »
So here is a draft of my seminar this fall. I’ve spent a lot of time cutting it back and giving it some (limited) focus. Let me know what you think. The italics disappeared with the cutting and pasting. Imagine it is there. 1. Introduction and Overview 2. Does (and Need) Technology Make Us . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”512”] Armenian Church in Istanbul [/caption] This story will strike many readers as odd, but it is nonetheless true. For decades, religious minorities in Turkey, especially Christians, have complained that the state assigns . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’m really getting into Breaking Bad from the start. It is the show about a brilliant chemist turned failed entrepreneur, turned high school teacher, turned drug lord. Walter White has a disabled (and sweet) son, his wife is pregnant with an unexpected baby. He turns fifty and finds . . . . Continue Reading »
Nowadays we have difficulty imagining why anyone would willingly consent to be roused from a supposedly deep slumber by the summons to pray at midnight. Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , R.R. Reno argues that the fight over gay marriage is another aspect of the war on the weak: The first thing to say is that the gay rights movement has been largely an upper middle class project. Thurgood Marshall attended Lincoln University, an all-black college in . . . . Continue Reading »
The debate over “In Christ Alone” rages on, as Timothy George returns to take on the some of the counter-arguments in today’s On the Square : There are many evangelical hymns, of course, that suffer in both content and musicality. But In Christ Alone is not one of . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the weekend, many newspapers ran an Associated Press story by religion correspondent Rachel Zoll, about the emerging conflicts between same-sex marriage and religious freedom—such as are exemplified in the unfortunate decision last week by the New Mexico supreme court in Elane . . . . Continue Reading »
A Plot Against Living: J.F. Powerss Suitable Accommodations D. G. Myers, Daily Beast From the Abundance of the Heart Alan Jacobs, Medium A Coptic Monument to Survival, Destroyed Samuel Tadros, Wall Street Journal The U.S.’s Lagging Commitment to Religious Freedom Robert P. . . . . Continue Reading »