A few weeks ago, Losana Boyd, our director of marketing and a poet herself, wrote a positive review of Kathleen Graber’s new book of poetry The Eternal City for On the Square. The review drew sharp disagreement from some of our readers who felt Graber’s verse read less like poetry than . . . . Continue Reading »
Craig Carter defends the lecture , the “paradigmatic act of the university professor in the (originally) Western (but now Global) university in the modern age”: [W]hat kind of event is the lecture? I say it is a moral event first because it is a kind of profession of faith, which is why . . . . Continue Reading »
It was just my first time—on Skype—thanks to Thom Hartmann, whose producer has been pushing me to get visual for some time so I can cross swords with the very liberal talk show host. (I heard echoes of my own younger days in talking to him. I’m certainly no fan of big . . . . Continue Reading »
Wow. Japanese scientists claim that they restored mobility to a paralyzed monkey—note the need for using animals in research—with human induced pluripotent stem cells. From the story:Japanese researchers said Wednesday they had used stem cells to restore partial mobility in a small . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking in German, a Dutch cardinal told a tv audience “Wir haben es nicht gewusst” (we knew nothing) about the sexual abuse of children and young people by Dutch clergy, now (finally) coming to light. The allusion to the post-war German claim — the excuse — was obvious, and . . . . Continue Reading »
While our culture tends to eschew religious polemics, great disagreements have produced not only some of the most awe-inspiring moments in human history, but also some of the most beautiful lines of prose. So argues Carl Truman in the latest issue of Themelios : [P]olemic has produced some . . . . Continue Reading »
Theologian R.C. Sproul explains why there’s nothing nefarious about the X in Xmas : The simple answer to your question is that the X in Christmas is used like the R in R.C. My given name at birth was Robert Charles, although before I was even taken home from the hospital my parents called me . . . . Continue Reading »
This is hilarious. For years we have been told by GWHs that President Bush was RISKING THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET! by rejecting Kyoto—the current global warming treaty that sets modest restrictions on carbon emissions. (Most signatory nations have not met those goals, but these deals . . . . Continue Reading »
Those interested in a forceful and substantive response to Robert Orsi’s denunciations of the depravities of the Catholics Church—insufficient solicitude for “reproductive choice,” for example—should click over to read what Notre Dame professor Daniel Philpot has to say . . . . Continue Reading »
This morning On the Square , R.R. Reno takes a closer look at Light of the World: The Pope, the Church, and the Signs of the Times , Peter Sewald’s book-length interview with Pope Benedict XVI. Rather than focusing on the pope’s already much discussed comments on condoms, Reno examines . . . . Continue Reading »
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