Europe’s Anti-Semitism Comes Out of the Shadows
Jim Yardley, New York Times
Mormon Music After the Mormon Moment
Jeremy Grimshaw, New Music Box
Social Psychology is Being Shaken
John Doris, Sometimes I’m Wrong
Corinthians and Communists
Philip Jenkins, Anxious Bench
Ruth Bader Ginsburg just can’t stop accidentally talking like a eugenicist. What rotten luck! Continue Reading »
Britain’s Daily Telegraph reports that anti-incest laws in Germany could be struck down on the grounds that they constitute an unacceptable intrusion into the right to sexual self-determination. The narrow context is the case of a brother and sister who have lived together for years and have four children. The wider context is the very meager basis upon which laws relating to sexual ethics are now built. Continue Reading »
We can’t go out into the streets and do evangelism and tell them what the gospel is, but we can show it.” So said Canon Andrew White last week addressing a small group of local Christians in New York City. A couple of days earlier, he gave the opening prayer in the U. S. Senate, which you can watch at C-SPAN. Continue Reading »
In an interview with my friend Warren Cole Smith, Ted Cruz claims that critics of his recent remarks to the In Defense of Christians summit haven’t previously written on the topic. “What I find interesting is almost to a person, the people writing those columns have never or virtually never spoken of persecuted Christians in any other context.”
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The New York Times titled its article, “In Weddings, Pope Looks Past Tradition.” The Wall Street Journal announced that the pope’s presiding over twenty weddings at St. Peter’s on Sunday indicates his desire for a more “open and inclusive church.” CBS News called the mass ceremony “progressive.”
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As Robert Louis Wilken has noted on more than one occasion, Maximus the Confessor’s use of the phrase “blessed passion of love” evokes ideas that were important to Christian tradition. Continue Reading »
To some, writing and reading poetry amidst the ruthless violence in the Middle East, the trials of the Church at home, and the general anxiety of our time, may seem cutely whimsical at best, and shamefully detached from reality at worst. But, I maintain, it can be quite the opposite. Continue Reading »
The eminent religious historian George Marsden will deliver the Witherspoon Institute’s second annual Simon Lecture on October 1. Continue Reading »
As students head back to college this month, many have yet to choose a major. When they do decide, they should keep a wide divergence in mind. It appeared awhile back in a headline in the Chronicle of Higher Education: “Business and Academic Leaders Disagree on Quality of College Grads.” The disagreement emerged in two polls by Gallup, one for Lumina that asked Americans, including business leaders, about the cost and quality of higher education, the other for Inside Higher Ed that queried academic officers about the academic health of their campuses. Continue Reading »
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