Information for the 2014 First Things junior fellowship program can be found here. Readers of our website have no doubt taken notice of the ad for our Junior Fellowship program, which for the two new recruits will begin this August. College students graduating this spring and recent collegians . . . . Continue Reading »
Normally when a country decides to intervene in another country’s civil war, they choose a side. The U.S. has decided to take a different approach in Libya: We may soon be bombing both sides. As NATO takes over control of airstrikes in Libya, and the Obama administration considers new steps . . . . Continue Reading »
I eavesdropped and filmed a conversation between a bioethicist and a Hippocratic Oath-taking physician. Very revealing. Tune in over at Secondhand Smoke . . . . . Continue Reading »
Since I’m not a Catholic, it’s not really my place to criticize buffet Catholicism. But this sort of thing really irks me: Marquette University announced benefits to the same-sex spouses of faculty and staff, in the wake of controversy surrounding the aborted hiring of a lesbian dean. . . . . Continue Reading »
Back by popular demand. I am so technologically unsavy, I was unable previously to upload this to YouTube. It is there now. So, for your satirical enjoyment, we bring it to you . . . . Continue Reading »
As Mark A. Signorelli notes , most people—especially conservatives—misunderstand what the reference “a city upon a hill” means: Conservatives are awfully fond of referring to America as a “city upon a hill;” it would be a wonderful thing if they actually made some . . . . Continue Reading »
Is it just me or is April Fool’s Day the worst pseudo-holiday on the calendar? As an infovore who has the strange habit of assuming that people are telling the truth, it drives me nuts to waste a day wondering if what I’m hearing and reading is fake. I don’t get the appeal. Has . . . . Continue Reading »
From Shiva Naipaul’s travel essay about the Seychelles, “Fall from Innocence”: He refers to a fifty-rupee note adorned with a group of emblematic coconut trees. When examined from a certain angle, the fronds patterned themselves into the letters S-E-X. (I was given a tie adorned . . . . Continue Reading »
A television news report from Belgium is reporting that an elderly Belgian couple received joint euthanasia because they didn’t want to live without each other. Apparently, the community knew ahead of time, as they even planned their joint funeral. Details, analysis, and the . . . . Continue Reading »
From Christianity Today: What’s a Congregation Worth? One non-religious researcher’s best estimate for First Baptist Church, Philadelphia: $6 million in value to the community, almost ten times its annual budget. “Later studies may find even higher . . . . Continue Reading »
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