This week’s New Yorker carries an instructive essay by Michelle Goldberg, ‘What is Woman?’, which addresses a matter I predicted some months ago here and here. Feminists are apparently engaged in internecine warfare over the status of transgender people. Are women who used to be . . . . Continue Reading »
My Church Loyalties, Or: Why I Don’t Convert
D. Stephen Long, Christian Century
Can the Caliphate Last?
Charlie Cooper, Daily Beast
The Art and Ethics of Attention
Thomas Pfau, Hedgehog Review
There Is Nothing Modern About Euthanasia
Helen Andrews, Center for Independent Studies
Heaven and Hell in Campania
Lincoln Allison, Standpoint
I was delighted to see that Rod Dreher has used my article on the church in exile as the starting point for a discussion of which Christian tradition will prove most helpful to Christians in the U.S. in the coming years. It also triggered a twitter exchange between Ross Douthat and Alan Jacobs, both of whom are significant voices in the current religious climate and both of whose work has been a great stimulus to my own thinking over the years. Continue Reading »
France has offered to facilitate asylum for Iraqi Christians who have fled Mosul since the takeover of that city by ISIS, the jidahist group. The announcement came in a joint communiqué by Foreign Minister Laurence Fabius and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. Continue Reading »
The landmark ruling in Hobby Lobby induced a heavy sigh in the chests of some Christians who are tired of culture-warring. Eager for détente, these types tend to view those of us in debates at the nexus of faith and culture with suspicion. They place fault on fellow believers for being too-easily aggrieved, and accuse us of being motivated more by the need to sustain our culture-war industrial complexes than by principle. Recently, one such observer curiously described the Hobby Lobby decisionas a win for the Green family, but a loss for religious liberty. Continue Reading »
Conscience and the Law: A Bumpy Ride
Hadley Arkes, Catholic Thing
More Engaging Copy for the Ten Commandments
David Tate, McSweeney’s
Last Meal at Whole Foods
Saïd Sayrafiezadeh, New Yorker
I Am Not “Trapped in a Bubble of Privilege”
Andrew Giambrone, New Republic
How We Create Traditions with Dubious Origins
Casey N. Cep, Pacific Standard
The shrine was, after all, a mosque, and Jonah figures in the Quran as well as the Bible. To understand why ISIS destroyed the tomb, one has to appreciate something about the version of Islam the group espouses. Continue Reading »
Serious religious adherents know their faith’s effect on economic activity extends far beyond how behaviors like fasting diminish productivity or praying steal from time spent at work. Continue Reading »
Middle Earth Has Ruined Our Imagination
Josephine Livingstone, Prospect
On N. T. Wright’s 1658-page Book
Simon Gathercole, Reformation21
On the Book About My Father
L. Brent Bozell, American Spectator
At the Foot of the Cross with Thomas Hirshhorn and Matthias Grunewald
Scott Stephens, ABC Religion & Ethics
The Vanishing of Middle-Class Pastors
David R. Wheeler, The Atlantic
From Super to Nuts
James Bowman, Arma Virumque
Is Competent Authoritarianism Too Much to Ask For?
John Michael McGrath, Hazlitt
Cohabitation: Moving In and Moving On
Scott Stanley, Family Studies
Against Cardinal Kasper
Ross Douthat, Evaluations
Dylan Thomas, the Anti-Eliot
Bevis Hillier, Weekly Standard
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