Middle East Must Keep Its Christians, Says Vatican Calling for Scrutiny of Islamists’ Funding
Hannah Roberts, The Tablet
Trust Levels of News Sources by Ideological Group
Pew Research Center
Ello–And Goodbye to the New Facebook?
Ed Cumming, The Guardian
Isaac Asimov Mulls, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”
Isaac Asimov, MIT Technology Review
What explains the new enthusiasm for cultural difference? Continue Reading »
What if every new church building were to forgo the ubiquitous parking lot in the interest of restoring a normative ecclesiology? Continue Reading »
Why do we tend to panic or become despondent every time we hear of another story about sexual identity and gender politics? Continue Reading »
The Quality of Fear
David Brooks, The New York Times
Evolution and Ethics, Revisited
Gertrude Himmelfarb, The New Atlantis
Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever?
Charles Carman, Books & Culture
Our Endangered Species
Jonathan V. Last, The Weekly Standard
Why don’t we turn our ears to Africa—and this time really listen. Continue Reading »
The Lost Art of Reading
Kate Havard, The Washington Free Beacon
25 is the New 21
Randye Hoder, The Atlantic
Between Two Trees: A Review of Peter Leithart’s Shining Glory
Brett McCraken, The Other Journal
Inside Matisse’s Chapel of Cutouts
Morgan Meis, Patheos
Today’s proliferation of choices about gender identity should be understood as a product of consumerism. Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum, guest blogger Robert Delahunty has an extremely interesting post on this month’s Synod on the Family at the Vatican. Delahunty argues that the Church is losing the opportunity for the reset Pope Francis promised at the start of his pontificate: Continue Reading »
As the extraordinary synod on the family comes to a close, one thing has become abundantly clear: Many commentators who made fanciful predictions about what Pope Francis and the synod would do have turned out to be wrong. Continue Reading »
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