Know Your Evangelicals: Albert Mohler

Name: R. Albert Mohler, Jr.Why you should know him: Oft-quoted for his views on cultural and religious issues. Time.com called Dr. Mohler the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.”Denomination: Southern BaptistPosition: President and Professor of Christian . . . . Continue Reading »

Together Against Sexploitation

An video interview and a written interview with the Australian writer Melinda Tankard Reist, leader of a new activist group working against the sexualization of girls and society. The first deals more with the issue and the second with the practical details of her campaign against . . . . Continue Reading »

The Importance of Innocence

William Doino, who with Ronald Rychlak wrote Pius XII and the Distorting Ellipsis for us, made a striking point in a message about the need to stand up not just for the pope for for others so slandered: There is a line in the fine film, A Cry in the Dark (Meryl Streep), about a woman falsely . . . . Continue Reading »

Fine-Tuning an Argument and a Universe

Note: This weekend a friend asked me to recommend some resources on the fine-tuning of the universe. Since I had those handy, I thought it might be useful to turn it into a post.] The heavens tell of the glory of God,” claimed the Psalmist, “The skies display his marvelous . . . . Continue Reading »

Afternoon Links — 10.4.10

The pope denounces the “evil” of the Sicilian mafia . Benedict urged Sicilians to be “ashamed of evil, which offends God and man” and called them to bring organised crime. which “injures the civil and religious community,” into the open, reports  The Daily . . . . Continue Reading »

On Hell or: is Plato There?

Americans are much less sure of the existence of Hell than of Heaven. Hopefully this is because they have had such glimpses of the Divine that Hell seem fuzzy to them. There seems, however, some chance that it is because they have become too nice to believe anyone is in Hell.In chatting with regular . . . . Continue Reading »

Students Writing Freely

A new and cheering venture: the Student Free Press Association . “Run by veteran journalists for the benefit of beginning journalists,” according to its website, the SFPA is “is an individual membership organization of college-aged writers, bloggers, tweeters, podcasters, and . . . . Continue Reading »