Yes, according to the brilliant Sara Henary. Here is the conclusion of the fantastic talk she gave at Berry last November. Question for discussion: Does our Declaration depend on specifically Christian premises—even its theoretical core? Hint: Sara is expressing her disagreement with Michael . . . . Continue Reading »
Richard John Neuhaus and Avery Cardinal Dulles were fond of referring to the Catholic Church’s irrevocable commitment to ecumenism. Why then haven’t any Catholics yet taken up the Andrew and Sarah Wilson’s proposal to respond to their Lutheran pilgrimage from Erfurt to Rome . . . . Continue Reading »
Marriage. Marriage is not what brings us together today. No, today On the Square Russell Saltzman explains how to preach a funeral: I persist in this notion, an intuition if you like, that the life of every Christian tells us something about how the gospel gets lived, how ordinary Christians with . . . . Continue Reading »
The differences between evangelicals and Catholics on the question of ultimate authority really isn’t all that different, argues Kevin DeYoung, since tradition still requires interpretation : One of the common Catholic objections to the Protestant doctrine of sola . . . . Continue Reading »
Albert Mohler’s comments on the demise of brick-and-mortar bookstores begins, “Book stores are going away.” That is the conclusion reached by Mike Shatzkin, chief executive of Idea Logical Co., a consulting firm based in New York. Shatzkin offered his ominous prediction to The Wall . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve all heard of the placebo effect, that is some people will seem to experience benefit from a “drug” they think they are taking, even when they are not. But a new study on pain found that even when pain controlling drugs are being administered, if the subject believes . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things presents its first video, The Creed: What Christians Profess, and Why It Ought to Matter . Produced by actor, director, and writer, Tim Kelleher, The Creed is a remarkable film about why the radical claims made in the Nicene Creed are so important to all of us. Whether you are a . . . . Continue Reading »
I was asked several months ago by Human Life Review to react to Peter Singer’s presentation at Princeton University’s conference on abortion, in which pro life and pro choice advocates exchanged views and respectfully debated. I wrote about that here at SHS (also here), but the HLR . . . . Continue Reading »
Today’s first “On The Square” item is Joe Carter’s ” My Heroes Have Always Been Hebrews ,” where he explores evangelicals’ theological commitments to the welfare of Jews and the state of Israel: Indeed, it is almost impossible to overstate the influence of . . . . Continue Reading »
Policy advocates hurt their own cause when they easily pull out the Nazi analogy. Unless it is actually apt, calling your opponents “like the Nazis” is rightly seen by readers or listeners as a lazy slur. Alas, that’s what James Delingpole, the Telegraph’s warming . . . . Continue Reading »
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