Those of us who grew up with the biblical account of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea never thought it the least fantastic or implausible. Now someone has come up with a fascinating model of what may have happened: Parting the waters: Computer modeling applies physics to Red Sea escape . . . . Continue Reading »
An intrepid SHS news tipper sent me a head’s up that Yahoo conducted a huge survey—it appears not to be a scientific poll—but I think it is significant. A whopping 65% of the some 16,000 surveyed on this issue (this corrects my mistake that all 1.6 million were surveyed) want . . . . Continue Reading »
So, you’ve started a church plant. You’ve gathered together a few faithful families and individuals from within a community, and you’re likely now meeting in homes, rented office space, or more likely —- a public school building. Hopefully, you’ve decided (and founded . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of our readers probably like gold—with an ounce of gold above $1,300 what’s not to like—and talk of reviving the gold standard is going around. The U.S. has been off the gold standard since 1933. David C. Harper, editor of Numismatic News , reports sobering figures for people . . . . Continue Reading »
Carson Holloway discusses Friendship in foreign policy . Samuel Gregg explains the economic necessity of humility . Diogenes describes a group of very confused Irish priests , who approve of disgruntled women skipping Sunday Mass. Matthew Archbold denounces Randall Terry for giving lessons in . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in 2005, the now-emeritus scholar Guenter Lewy published The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide , a book that argued that there wasn’t much evidence that the massacre of Armenians during World War I was caused by a deliberate Turkish plan to destroy the Armenian . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel’s Richard Dawkins & Co. = Paisley 2.0? is now up on “On the Square.” The title is not, as you’d guess, a compliment to the “New Atheists,” but it does offer Catholics, and to an extent other Christians, a real hope. . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, so far, two “On the Square” articles, with George Weigel’s column coming shortly. First, in Should You Trust the Monkey Mind? , Joe Carter argues against what he calls “evolutionary naturalism” because its own explanation of the origin of belief undermines its . . . . Continue Reading »
Lindsay Johns says that black people should be reading books by dead white men : In 2007 a home affairs select committee produced a report about young black boys in the criminal justice system, calling for the department for education and schools to consult with black community groups to make the . . . . Continue Reading »
But where will the Spartans live? . . . . Continue Reading »
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