At the Center for Law and Religion Forum , my colleague Marc DeGirolami has a rundown of the various appellate court rulings to date in the ACA Contraceptives Mandate litigation, including last week’s Seventh Circuit decision. Check it out . . . . . Continue Reading »
A kind of On the Square classic, our former webmaster Joe Carter’s What a Veteran Knows , published on Veteran’s Day four years ago. (Leon and Amy Kass selected it for the Veterans Day section of their American Calendar .) It begins: “Thank you for your . . . . Continue Reading »
Ours are crummy and low times by all sorts of measures, but they do have their good sides. We finally, for example, seem able to cinematically look slavery in the eye. We’ve had the material since the origins of film-making. Solomon Northup’s book about his experience as a free black . . . . Continue Reading »
Kevin Noble Maillard is trying to read into the significance of New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio being part of an interracial marriage: Enter the domestic hipsterdom of racially mixed family, a multivalent Rorschach for political campaigns. It appeals to multiple demographic groups. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Pfau, the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University, has written an incisive evaluation of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation at The Immanent Frame . I pass the piece on given interest in Gregory’s work among First Things’ readership and Ephraim . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, it’s Friday. Here’s some reading for you as we head into the weekend: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler posts about the DECONSTRUCTION of MARRIAGE. Peter Leithart has blog posts on Revelation , N. T. Wright , and the Queen of the Sciences (er, Humanities). Advice from . . . . Continue Reading »
New York City Events: Newman and His Family Thursday, November 14 Edward Short, author of Newman and His Family , will give a book signing and a talk at 6:30 at the Church of the Holy Family, 315 East 47th Street. Call (212) 419-5370 with questions. C.S. Lewis: In Memoriam Saturday, November 23 The . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s another rough and dirty SNIPPET from my upcoming lecture on the FREE AND RELATIONAL PERSON AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION. The judicial movement to understand the person less relationally, or more as a free individual in the Lockean sense, began in 1965. The Court began, of course, . . . . Continue Reading »
History without Hermeneutics Thomas Pfau, Immanent Frame John Donne’s Preaching Style Virtual Paul’s Cross Project What Dido Did, Satan Saw, and O’Keeffe Painted Mark Bauerlein, New Criterion Should the Pro-Life Strategy Stress Implantation or Conception? Robert Vega, . . . . Continue Reading »
A vocal charismatic from western Canada, Sarah Bessey has just come out with her first book, Jesus Feminist . It’s a highly relational and popular account of how Bessey’s love for Jesus flows into her approach to female flourishing. As part of the launch for the book, she’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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