Church Realignment and the Search for Greener Grass Alan F. H. Wisdom, Juicy Ecumenism Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution Kaya Genç, Los Angeles Review of Books Commies for Christ Nathan Schneider, New Inquiry Communion for the Remarried: What’s at Stake Ed Peters, In the Light of . . . . Continue Reading »
Genesis tells us when the serpent spoke to the woman, her husband was with her (Gen. 3:6). Yet evidently Adam is silent . Why? I’m thinking we might learn how to answer this question from Ahab and Jezebel, whose story is similar in several respects. The crucial similarity is that the man knows . . . . Continue Reading »
National Review Online has posted an interview on What is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense that I gave to Zachary Young, a reporter for the Yale Politic . Here’s a bit: Our argument can explain and justify at the level of principle (and not merely as a matter of . . . . Continue Reading »
“The Marxist ideology is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended,” says Pope Francis, in answer to a question about how he feels about “ultraconservative” critics of his Evangelii Gaudium calling him a marxist. . . . . Continue Reading »
The satire may be a little heavy-handed in an Onion article on the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy , but it does get at the way some people feel about Jews. Or, as some of them would put it, “the Jews.” (That definite article is important.) Or, at a strategic rhetorical distance, . . . . Continue Reading »
A lovely and imperative meditation on Christmas from America on The Terrifying First Christmas . The First Christmas, we tend to forget, rattles a marriage. It exiles a family. It endangers lives. And it provokes a madman to murder. The brisk descriptions in the New Testament fail to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Constitution’s parts describing impeachment are few—the first two are in Article I, section 3: The House of Representatives . . . . . . shall have the sole Power of Impeachment. . . . The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments. When sitting for that Purpose, they . . . . Continue Reading »
Okay, so a little more Breaking Bad blogging. Spoilers ahead. Over at the Atlantic, Chris Heller writes that Ozymandias was the fitting conclusion for Breaking Bad because: Nobody is saved and everybody suffers. That’s the ending Breaking Bad needed. Bleak, merciless, and tragic. I think . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Friday! Here’s what we have for you as we head into the weekend: Maureen Mullarkey sleeps through sermons . What Peter Leithart is reading about: what Jesus ate, Trojan popes , Levinas , James Bond , Paul Ryan . He’s also still reading N. T. Wright, and Sara Coakley’s God, . . . . Continue Reading »
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