Two updates on last week’s post about the persecution of Christians in Syria –one hopeful, one much less so.First the hopeful one. As I wrote last week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, an al-Qaeda affiliate fighting with Syrian opposition, has succeeded in capturing the . . . . Continue Reading »
This coming Monday, March 31st, the Tikvah fund will host an event titled “Jews, Christians, and the State of Israel” with speakers Shlomo Riskin, Dan Senor, R. R. Reno, and Robert Nicholson. Continue Reading »
An Uncomfortable Spiritual Autobiography
Pascal Emmanuel-Gobry, Inebriate Me
Baseness for the Base
Anthony Esolen, Intercollegiate Review
End of the Conservative Publishing Gold Rush
McKay Coppins, Buzzfeed
Stop Saying Catholics Reject “Birth Control”
Brantly Millegan, Aleteia
Ten Great Opening Lines
Sarah Gilmartin, Irish Times
John Piper recently gave a lecture at Westminster Theological Seminary about the New Calvinism that is already getting play at several Reformed sites. His aim was to argue for an interrelationship between Old Calvinism and New Calvinism and to attempt to ground the ethnic diversity of the movement in classic Reformed doctrines. Continue Reading »
Did St. Paul’s originality as a thinker, preacher, and letter-writer lie in his Christology or in his teaching on the inclusion of the Gentiles in the Church? Trying to answer that question on its own terms misses the interconnectedness of Paul’s Christology and his missionary practice. Continue Reading »
Companies don’t cease to be moral and cultural enterprises when they sell stock. Continue Reading »
UC Santa Barbara Professor Mireille Miller-Young is more imprudent, but no more ideologically insane than the administration of Stanford University. Miller Young forcibly took a sign from, and allegedly assaulted a pro-life protestor at her college. The Volokh Conspiracy cites the police report, in . . . . Continue Reading »
A recently discovered and translated editorial from antiquity. Continue Reading »
Pascal’s Apologetics
Tim Keller, Gospel Coalition
The Overprotected Kid
Hannah Rosin, Atlantic
The Civilized French Hunt
Chantel Tattoli, The Millions
Justin Welby’s First Year
John Bingham, Telegraph
What Is Religious Freedom Good For?
Peter Berger, American Interest
It was very late, and I was very tired, when I received a facebook message from one “Solomon Northup”:“What you’re saying here praising John Ridley [winner of the Oscar this year for best screen adaptation, for Twelve Years A Slave] makes basic sense, but I need to lodge a . . . . Continue Reading »
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