In an article today for Public Discourse , prominent Muslim scholar Abdullah Saeed argues that the hadith of Islam (the sayings and actions attributed to Muhammad, the second most important source after the Quran), do not support the practice of execution for conversion from Islam to another . . . . Continue Reading »
Breathes there a man with a soul so dead that he only listens to music heard first when he was in high school?Evidently, yes, if my experience is any guide. Give me a phone or IPod and I can tell you the age of the owner with more accuracy than Sherlock Holmes granted a walking stick. There are more . . . . Continue Reading »
On Friday, our assistant editor Kevin Staley-Joyce, once a junior fellow himself, posted a note about the magazine’s Junior Fellows program . I join him in commending to your attention the notice to the right and in asking older readers to forward it to any college senior or recent graduate . . . . Continue Reading »
Since the days when mankind invented agriculture and animal husbandry, we’ve been genetically modifying the plants and animals we consume. Yet for almost a decade scientists have been blurring the line between human and animal by producing human-animal chimeras—a hybrid creature . . . . Continue Reading »
The medical research sector sure has a sense of entitlement—to the point that some seem to think that funding their work matters more than meeting basic community needs. How else explain the hundreds of millions the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine continues to borrow and . . . . Continue Reading »
At the outset, let me say that I am in favor of mediating bioethics committees in hospitals. I have been a member of such a committee. The members and the good they do day in and day out helping families and professionals navigate treacherous waters cannot be quantified.But bioethics . . . . Continue Reading »
If American conservatism is inauthentic but intersecting with ideas of postmodernism through a (non-right liberal) distaste for ideology and incredulity toward meta-narratives, then it is useful to consider some of its rhetorical features. The definition of rhetoric will vary because of the diverse . . . . Continue Reading »
Paul F. Crawford debunks four myths about the Crusades : Myth #1: The crusades represented an unprovoked attack by Western Christians on the Muslim world. Nothing could be further from the truth, and even a cursory chronological review makes that clear. In a.d. 632, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Asia . . . . Continue Reading »
Although philosopher Ed Feser is writing about Catholic bishops , I think this passage is applicable to at least 75 percent of Christian clergy: Here’s how the temporizing approach works. Where the liberal or secularist finds Catholic teaching hopelessly “reactionary,” the . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square, First Things editor R.R. Reno asks, ” What makes First Things First Things ? ” The first thing to say about First Things is that it stands for the conviction that our personal and communal submission to the authority of revelation humanizes, and that the . . . . Continue Reading »
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