This article suggests that denominational representation at denominationally-affiliated colleges and universities is declining. An (not the) explanation? The perceived high cost of a Christian education alongside drops in denominational loyalty have contributed to the changing demographics . . . . . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s online article at Books & Culture , Marcus Goodyear explains a new poetry game on Twitter where poets tweet lines of poetry on a particular topic in an effort to outwit each other. The purpose, Goodyear remarks, is to remind us that poetry is fun: In the end, Tweet Speak Poetry . . . . Continue Reading »
We’ve discussed this before, but I think it bears repeating. Chimpanzees—because of their genetic similarity to us—still provide a crucial, albeit limited role, in medical research. For example, HIV is thought to have infected humans from chimps. But what kills . . . . Continue Reading »
In honor of those who put their faith and fate in the hands of swirling balls of dust . . . According to [the Minnesota Planetarium Society’s Parke] Kunkle, there really should be a 13th sign, Ophiuchus. It seems the Babylonians who invented the zodiac skipped Ophiuchus because they wanted . . . . Continue Reading »
Quoting the Times , “In a down payment on riches to come, scientists from NASA’s Kepler satellite announced Monday that they had discovered the smallest planet yet found outside our solar system and the first that was unquestionably rocky, like the Earth.” It’s the “like . . . . Continue Reading »
I was recently part of a group of Christians visiting together and passing the time with stories. One fellow told a story about how he had to get a haircut for the first time in years. He usually uses clippers and buzzes his head. But his wife asked him to let it grow and then get . . . . Continue Reading »
Drawing on The National Marriage Project’s 2010 Report, ” When Marriage Disappears: The New Middle America ,” I’ve mused a little about divorce and the larger relations between changed social mores and increased inequalities in America, suggesting that the sexual revolution . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are my thoughts, based on those of Cliff Orwin. . . . . Continue Reading »
A recently released report prepared by The National Marriage Project under the direction of W. Bradford Wilcox is full of very interesting data about sex, marriage, and family life in contemporary America, some of which we’ll be ventilating in a forthcoming issue of First Things . One . . . . Continue Reading »
I did not see it delivered, but, having read the transcript, it seems to me that President Obama’s speech at the memorial for the victims of the Tucson shooting is one of the best he has delivered. He celebrates the ordinary and homely virtues of those who died and those who were . . . . Continue Reading »
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