A university faculty prayer inspired by the Chorister’s Prayer of the Royal College of Church Music. Adapted by the CS Lewis FoundationBless, O Lord, us your servants,Who are called to scholarly vocations.Grant that what we apprehend with our mindsand profess through our wordsMay be grounded . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s my thought, following the lead of probably the second smartest citizen of Georgia of all time: Secession was stupid. In general, I’ll be following the events of that war with a focus on (the lack of) southern statesmanship. I will also have lots to say about Alexander Stephens, . . . . Continue Reading »
Last July I noted that novelist Anne Rice had denounced Christianity . Now, in an interview conducted by her homosexual son, Christopher, she denounces the Catholic Church. The MetroWeekly has transcribed some of the highlights from the video: “I am completely confident that gays are winning . . . . Continue Reading »
While researching a story for the New York Times , David Bornstein discovered a surprising finding about America’s homeless population: One of the jolting realizations that I had while researching this column is that anybody could become like a homeless person — all it takes is a . . . . Continue Reading »
The Chronicle of Higher Education has an interactive map that breaks down by county the places where people have college degrees. The map tracks data from 1940 to the present and includes a breakdown by race and sex. (Via: In the Agora ) . . . . Continue Reading »
It is hard not to smile nowadays when someone, inevitably a religious liberal, declares some proposal “prophetic.” It’s so sixties. In today’s “On the Square” article, Too Often Prophetic , I suggest why they shouldn’t use it nearly so much, and why . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interesting new e-book by Carl Trueman called The Real Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trueman revisits the question originally posed by Mark Noll, but with an emphasis not on the mind of the evangelical, but with the term evangelical itself. Trueman writes,For there to be a scandal of the . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago I complained about positive book reviews for a new book that partially involves explicit depictions of sexual intercourse between a chimpanzee and a woman, with the reviewers either lauding the bestiality or praising it with non damnation. I saw the acceptance of bestiality/literary . . . . Continue Reading »
Reading the Week in Review section of the NYT today, I came upon an interesting column about a new computer—dubbed Watson—that its developers hope will rise to the level of AI, defined in the side bar copied above. Watson will soon be in a “Jeopardy” type . . . . Continue Reading »
Today is the anniversary of the most difficult day of my life, February 5, 2008. On that date, an EF-4 tornado tore a jagged slice through the very middle of the campus of Union University, where I teach. I will never forget seeing the funnel cloud crossing the highway a few hundred . . . . Continue Reading »
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