It was a modest speech, one generous to the American experience but lacking in the sharpness this pontiff is sometimes capable of. The repeated use of the term “dialogue” was irritating. It's a buzzword among today's technocrats. They use it as a softening word, one that signals that . . . . Continue Reading »
Free to Start Again: The Message and Meaning of Yom Kippur
Jonathan Sacks, Australian Broadcasting Corporation
The Bible and its Translators
Sarah Brodsky, Washington Free Beacon
Watch the Austin Graduate School of Theology/First Things Lecture
Dr. Keith Stanglin, Christian Studies
The White House is More Afraid of Offending China's President than the Pope
Editorial Board, Washington Post
Where Does the Story End?
Michael Rennier, Dappled Things
The results of a survey of female college students came out this week, and the numbers are distressing. The Association of American Universities commissioned a “Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct,” focusing on “the incidence, prevalence and characteristics of . . . . Continue Reading »
On her biggest stage yet, Fiorina deserves applause for forcefully raising Planned Parenthood’s treatment of the unborn and the associated political avoidance practiced by many in both parties. Nevertheless, Fiorina’s details were in fact a bit off, and her sympathizers (a group I readily put . . . . Continue Reading »
Pope Francis: Woman Is God’s Strongest Ally in the Battle Against Evil
Diane Montagna, Aleteia
Why Rush Should Meet the Bunk
Rod Dreher, American Conservative
J. R. R. Tolkien and the Exorcism of the Tape Recorder
E. H. Kern, BookRiot
Tactical Thomism
Susannah Black, Radio Free Thulcandra
Pope Leaves Detailed Instructions for Taking Care of Holy Spirit While He Out of Town
Editors, Onion
A Country Without Churches
Dominic Bouck, O. P. , Washington Post
It's Finally Here: The Big Review Paper on the Lack of Political Diversity in Social Psychology
Jonathan Haidt, Heterodox Academy
A Matter of Life and Death
Calah Alexander, Patheos
Obituary for Brian Sewell: Colourful critic who waged wittily acerbic war against the inanities of modern conceptual art
Editors, Telegraph
The Bitter Cup
Clare Coffey, Washington Free Beacon
Aimee Byrd and I would like to withdraw our claim that gender makes no difference.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury: Dissolving the Anglican Church to Save It
David A. Graham, Atlantic
Stop the Robot Apocalypse: A Review of Doing Good Better
Amia Srinivasan, London Review of Books
A Gift to New York, in Time for the Pope
Larry Buchanan, David W. Dunlap, Josh Williams, New York Times
Donald Trump: American Psycho
Harrison Fluss, Jacobin
How The Dating Scene Became Stacked Against Women
Gina Dalfonzo, Christianity Today
One of the biggest moments in this second GOP debate was Carly Fiorina deftly taking control of the exchange and pointing it toward the macabre activities at Planned Parenthood—and how the top two leaders of the Democratic party are quite content to defend Planned Parenthood and let them go about . . . . Continue Reading »
Tax Exemptions Protect Religious Freedom. We Should Keep Them.
Richard W. Garnett, Washington Post
Some Context for American's Pledge to Take in 10,000 Syrian Refugees
Leah Libresco, FiveThirtyEight
Kim Davis Highlights the Left's “Rule of Law” Hypocrisy
Cameron Smith, Al
Wrinkles and Glory
Stacia Littlefield, Humane Pursuits
Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet is Far Too Nice
Lloyd Evans, Spectator
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