Over 10,000 different magazines will be published this year in the U.S. Of those, approximately 8,372 will have Lady Gaga and/or Barack Obama on the cover. Despite having an almost unlimited number of options to choose from, magazine publishers tend to recycle the same visual cliches for their cover . . . . Continue Reading »
Some people, a friend observed, remarking on the way some Christians think Christopher Hitchens’ illness will bring him to Christianity, ”expect severe illness — or any other adversity, for that matter — somehow to work a radical change in . . . . Continue Reading »
As an undergraduate years ago, those of us in the Wheaton College art crowd piled into a fifteen passenger van for an unusual studio visit. We drove into Chicago to the home/studio of artist Tim Lowly whose work—we were told—is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (which in . . . . Continue Reading »
Burning the Koran is stupid, offensive, and generally wicked.It is easy to show that burning the Koran is stupid for a Christian to do. You might think a woman’s beloved husband unworthy, but burning his picture is a bad opening move. You certainly will get her attention, but not her . . . . Continue Reading »
“I’ve just never liked G.K. Chesterton,” quips Austin Bramwell, “which, among the conservative Christians with whom I sometimes (though, as an Episcopalian, not often) travel, is almost enough to make me a Bad Person.” No almost about it, Austin—that makes you very . . . . Continue Reading »
The issue of euthanasia, if it is to be properly considered, must be looked at in the societal context in which doctor prescribed death would be carried out. Indeed, issues such as elder abuse, the failures of health care systems, the continuing problem of inadequate palliative care, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square” we offer two articles, R. R. Reno’s regular column and physicist and editorial board member Stephen M. Barr’s response to Stephen Hawking’s belief that the universe could come into being without God. In Progressive Catholicism’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Our provocation of the day comes from the late, great British preacher Martyn Lloyd-Jones : Faith according to our Lord’s teaching in this paragraph, is primarily thinking; and the whole trouble with a man of little faith is that he does not think. He allows circumstances to bludgeon him. . . . . . . Continue Reading »
1. I don’t have the time today for the Darwinian natural right post. 2. The anticipated big showdown between David Walsh and Ralph Hancock didn’t really happen at the Sunday panel. But fear not, they are continuing the argument in a future issue of PPS. What they both say in some way is . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Leithart explains what Christians gain from reading fiction and poetry: For Christians, the question at a certain level answers itself. We read because we are people of the book, the people of Moses, David, Nehemiah, Jeremiah, Isaiah, Matthew, Paul, and John. We read because in reading we . . . . Continue Reading »
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