Eve Tushnet explains why Mormon parents do a better job than most of keeping their children from the “mutant creed best understood as ‘Moralistic Therapeutic Deism.’” Parents who show, by their words or their actions, that the tenets and practices of their faith are vague, . . . . Continue Reading »
Mark Oppenheimer on why religious minority groups should resist the pull of assimilation : [H]ow much blander America would be if the broad, largely secular, and increasingly materialistic Christmas season were everyone’s tradition. If Muslims, Jews, the Amish, the Hindus, and all the rest of . . . . Continue Reading »
Momentous indeed: It is one thing, and isn’t another—and that’s not mere subjective opinion. Or so we read in What is Marriage, a new and momentous paper authored by First Things board member Robert P. George, along with former First Things assistant editor Ryan Anderson and Rhodes . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t know much about Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, but his big victory against Obamacare—and his articulateness—make me think a political star is being born. But his political future is beyond SHS’s scope. For our purposes, in the clip below, Cuccinelli . . . . Continue Reading »
It is one thing, and isn’t another—and that’s not mere subjective opinion. Or so we read in What is Marriage , a new and momentous paper authored by First Things board member Robert P. George, along with former First Things assistant editor Ryan Anderson and Rhodes Scholar Sherif . . . . Continue Reading »
Pistol Pete explains that if only the mandate is unconstitutional from a judicial view, Obamacare actually becomes worse. The point of the mandate is to keep people from avoiding insurance payments untill they actually get some troubling symptoms. They can never be turned down under the . . . . Continue Reading »
My thanks to Bret Lythgoe for asking a question that serves so well as a jumping-off point to explain what I was trying to accomplish in my last post here. In comment 11 on that thread, he wrote,Marriage is essentially about love, and committment, that’s lifelong. Why would anyone wish to deny . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare is in big trouble with the big court ruling yesterday. Now, AG Eric Holder and Secretary of HHS Kathleen Sebelius, have a piece in the Washington Post explaining why they think the law will be upheld. But mostly, it is a policy argument rather than a constitutional . . . . Continue Reading »
The estimable, not to say legendary, Fr. James V. Schall, S.J. reflects on what he calls “the fear of Christmas.” His conclusion: The fear of Christmas is something even more basic, or perhaps more sinister. Why is that? It is one thing simply not to know something because we have never . . . . Continue Reading »
In our second On the Square essay today, Patricia Snow reflects on the story of the thirty-three miners rescued from the San José copper mine in Chile this past October and sees a parable of Christian life: But for Christians, and especially for Catholic Christians, who share the faith of the . . . . Continue Reading »
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