The Church of England should carefully considering the consequences for Middle Eastern Christians and Jews of a conference like the one the Vicar of Christ Church attended in Tehran Continue Reading »
At Wesleyan University, that’s the solution to the problem. There are only a few fraternities on or off campus, and fewer than a hundred students live in them, but they have been the object of allegations of sexual assault, and students and faculty have demanded that something be done. Wesleyan has decided to make them coed. As the story at insidehighered.com explains : Continue Reading »
The Lanier Theological Library in Houston has posted the video of a lecture I presented last month, “Religious Freedom for Mideast Christians: Yesterday and Today.” Continue Reading »
The Christian Element in the Hong Kong Protests
Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
Confessions of an Aesthete
Terry Teachout, Commentary Magazine
Synod: Church Needs to Move Away From Harsh Language to Describe Gays and Cohabitees
Christopher Lamb, The Tablet
The End Has Not Yet Passed Over Us
Jacques J. Rancourt, VQR
As the Synod on the Family opens this week, Catholics and other attentive observers should be careful about the way the media covers the unfolding events. Continue Reading »
Lecrae: Christians Have Prostituted Art to Give Answers
Emma Green, The Atlantic
The Revelations of Marilynne Robinson
Wyatt Mason, The New York Times
Cults, Commitment and Creativity
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
Better to Marry Than to Burn
Traci Brimhall, Poetry Magazine
For months leading up to the Battle of Lepanto, fought on this day 443 years ago, Pope Pius V urged the faithful to pray for military victory against Muslim forces aiming to storm Italy from its Adriatic coast. Specifically, he enjoined Catholics in Europe to pray daily the most holy rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Christian navy prevailed, and on the Roman calendar October 7 was dedicated to Our Lady of Victory. Continue Reading »
For Evangelicals, debates about Christian cultural engagement largely occur within Richard Niebuhr’s “Christ and culture” rubric, which calls into question most forms of institutional Christianity on the one hand and pietistic Christianity on the other hand. There are serious problems with Niebuhr’s formulation, which is why the current debate about the Benedict or Dominican options offers an interesting alternative in its appeal to religious orders as a lens for cultural engagement. Continue Reading »
I Love Lena
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
California’s Neo-Victorian Feminism
Robert Tracinski, The Federalist
The Rapture Keeps Coming Back
Brett McCracken, Christianity Today
Scenes from “The Passion”: The First Path
Liz Berry, Poetry Magazine
The defense of Christians by leading Islamic law scholars is very welcome. But the scholars’ reasoning is unlikely to reassure Iraqi and Syrian Christians or encourage them to return home. Continue Reading »
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