The profusion of “recovery memoirs” in the last ten years has been so abundant as to make a person ask where the genre has been all this time. The modern concept of addiction, as distinct from mere sinfulness or deficiency of willpower, has been around for two hundred years. For . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan , not surprisingly, joined the stampede of those who found in the famous interview with the pope a Francis who doesn’t actually exist, complete with readings of his predecessors that missed the point of what they’d said. It’s the old story of dissident . . . . Continue Reading »
Andrew Sullivan calls me a reactionary and legalist (he is only half right) and describes Pope Benedict as “a fabulous flurry of fabric and jewellery,” about which he is altogether wrong. Sullivan’s statement is typical of the belief that Pope Benedict has an inappropriate love . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl Scott points us to this excellent Jonah Goldberg essay on Breaking Bad. More tomorrow (maybe). . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m up to the fourth season, but I have also been watching the last half of the fifth season. Here are several thoughts, The money isn’t really about the money for hardly anybody. One of the conceits of the show is that the drug money can’t really be spent in large, visible . . . . Continue Reading »
I can’t help but notice it here, notice it there, notice it everywhere. A few days ago, I read Steve Hayward, on Powerline , asking, ” So When Can We Expect Obama’s Malaise Speech? “ This does feel familiar, a sense of dread, a hopelessness. Well, in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pentecostal theologian Dale Coulter continues his analysis of the intellectual, and anti-intellectual, heritage of American Evangelicalism and Pentecostalism, described in Mark Noll Got It Wrong, Maybe . He is not happy with Mark Noll’s take on these things, which he argues wrongly . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , R.R. Reno argues that the trouble with Francis is that we don’t understand his context . . . and he doesn’t understand ours: Such comments by Francis do not challenge but instead reinforce America’s dominant ideological frame. It’s one in which . . . . Continue Reading »
From evangelical megachurch to Catholic cathedral, Timothy George traces the history of the Crystal Cathedral in today’s On the Square : This amazing structure, designed by famed architect Philip Johnson, boasted 10,661 silver-tinted windows supported by a filigree of steel. The windows . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this month LifeWay Research, an arm of the Southern Baptist Convention, polled Americans regarding the connection between current events in Syria and the prophecies of the Bible. I find the results a little surprising. Thirty-two percent of those polled agree with the statement, “I . . . . Continue Reading »
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