Fatherhood

by David T. Koyzis

At the risk of sounding cantankerous, I will take the occasion to point out that a twenty-three-year-old is an adult. Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2014 0

First Links — 2.21.14

by Matthew Cantirino

Icons, bank heists, and marketing philosophy. Continue Reading »

21 Feb 2014 0

Brotherly Love Came to Woodstock

by Carl Scott

Ang Lee’s 2009 film Taking Woodstock records an important milestone in the culture revolution of the 1960s, the rock festival and “Aquarian Exposition” held in August of 1969. It does so from an angle that downplays the concert proper—to our surprise the camera never . . . . Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2014 0

Holding the Ropes

by Andrew T. Walker

Before embarking on his missionary journey to India, William Carey famously told Andrew Fuller, “I will go down into the pit, if you will hold the ropes.” Most people remember Carey as one of the fathers of the modern missionary movement. But fewer remember Fuller as the man who organized, . . . . Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2014 0

Pope Francis and the Future of Charismatic Christianity

by Dale M. Coulter

A recent meeting of ministers associated with the prosperity-preaching Word of Faith branch of charismatic Christianity received a surprise announcement: Pope Francis had sent a message to the conference. It was something of a historic moment. Beginning around the thirty-minute mark of the above . . . . Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2014 0

Confession and Curse in True Detective’s Episode Five

by Julia Yost

In the opening of True Detective’s fifth episode, a man named Dewall gets a read on Rust: “I can see your soul in the edges of your eyes. It’s corrosive, like acid. . . . And I don’t like your face. . . . There’s a shadow on you, son.” Dewall is strangely attuned to the terms and images that have characterized Det. Rustin Cohle, in all his nihilism and shadiness—extending even to a punning gloss on that nickname, a nickname that Dewall cannot know. Dewall is the “cook partner” of meth chef and murder suspect Reginald Ledoux, and Rust is undercover. The cover is blown here, in a sense; Rust is found out, albeit not as a detective. He looks unsettled, and his unsettling sets the agenda for the episode, in which characters seek to get a read on others and not be read themselves. Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2014 0

First Links — 2.20.14

by Matthew Cantirino

Living in your nineties, dying in Belgium. Continue Reading »

20 Feb 2014 0

The Bible’s Vantage Point

by David T. Koyzis

If the Bible has a vantage point, it is not simply that of the oppressed, as if this were a readily identifiable class of persons. Continue Reading »

19 Feb 2014 0

Of Consciences and Cakes

by Andrew T. Walker

Political columnist Kirsten Powers has earned the respect of the Evangelical community. The story of her conversion was an unambiguous home run. She’s also responsible for helping raise attention about the atrocity of the Kermit Gosnell case.She’s a sharp, intellectually honest thinker . . . . Continue Reading »

19 Feb 2014 0

Professor Kaveny Goes on the Attack

by Robert P. George

Over at the liberal Catholic Commonweal blog, Cathleen Kaveny, who once labeled me and her then-Notre Dame Law School colleague Gerard Bradley “Rambo Cathlolics,” goes after me again in a post under the charmingly intolerant title “A Catholic Mullah, Now?” Continue Reading »

19 Feb 2014 0