Evolution and Political Ideology, Again
Chris Mooney, Washington Monthly
The Catholic Church’s Drinking Problem
Robert Christian, Millennial
God’s Traitors: Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England
Virginia Rounding, Telegraph
Crimea, Formerly a Potential Jewish Homeland
Jeffrey Veidlinger, Tablet
That TV Show Is Just OK
Anne Helen Petersen, Los Angeles Review of Books
Some years ago, I saw the following skit on Greek television. All the political events and personalities are real. ****** A man falls down and injures his head one week before the 1961 Greek election that featured middle-aged Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis being challenged by the elderly . . . . Continue Reading »
Poets like John Donne and George Herbert may be long dead, but that doesn’t mean their impact has ended. They have power, God working through them, to change lives even today. Continue Reading »
If you observe Lent, do it with your Bible open. Continue Reading »
When the famous Ellen DeGeneres Oscar selfie appeared on my Facebook wall on Mardi Gras, modified with ash crosses, I laughed. But on Ash Wednesday, I began to worry. Continue Reading »
On Twitter this morning, the Huff Post seeks your Ash Wednesday Selfies: HuffPost Religion@HuffPostRelig Will you be observing Ash Wednesday? Tweet your selfies to @HuffPostRelig with the hashtag #MyAshes or #Ashtag and we may share! Good . . . . Continue Reading »
How nostalgia and fantasy differ, a post-American Mormonism, and more daily articles of interest. Continue Reading »
Episode Seven of HBO’s True Detective depicts our chastened heroes in a chastened style. Gone is the murky intercutting among the 1995 flashbacks, the 2002 flashbacks, and the parallel interviews of 2012—the formal deviousness that caused us to doubt not only what the truth might be in . . . . Continue Reading »
Can we see the natural world as an expression of the supernatural and reform it at the same time? Continue Reading »
“Fasching—Mardi gras—is certainly not a Church festival. Yet, on the other hand, it is unthinkable apart from the Church’s calendar” begins Cardinal Ratzinger’s reflection “Mardi Gras: The Ground of Our Freedom.” Continue Reading »
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