Reading this article in The Wilson Quarterly, America: Land of Loners?, has inspired me to return to a topic I took up early last year in my personal blog, Notes from a Byzantine-Rite Calvinist. That topic is friendship, something that appears to have eroded in our highly mobile, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pew Research Center has released a new national survey showing that while favorable opinions of Islam have declined since 2005, there has been virtually no change over the past year in the proportion of Americans saying that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence. . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember back in 1996 when everyone was making fun of the Oakland, California school board for declaring “Ebonics” (aka African American Vernacular English ) a language of its own and not a dialect of English? Turns out they may have been on to something . Wanted by the Drug Enforcement . . . . Continue Reading »
God seems to be fading from His previous importance in the conservative movement, argues Joe Carter in today’s “On the Square,” God and Man in the Conservative Movement . Beginning with a description of William F. Buckley’s famous first book, he argues that Buckley’s . . . . Continue Reading »
In a post last week on the appointment of Dinesh D’Souza as president of King’s College, Rusty Reno wrote : Surely we’re at an interesting juncture in American religious history when a prominent Catholic is tapped to head up an Evangelical College. A very interesting . . . . Continue Reading »
TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults . . . . Continue Reading »
At Slate, Steven I. Weiss examines the motivations for Christian zionism : All of which begs the question: If they’re not doing it for a right-wing agenda, a missionary agenda, or an apocalyptic agenda, just why are Christians uniting for Israel? It’s because they love Jews. When I went . . . . Continue Reading »
When I was training my golden retriever, one command I impressed upon him above all others: the essential “come!” command. That no matter what the circumstances, no matter how enticing a particular plant, person, or fellow canine might appear to be, when I gave the command to . . . . Continue Reading »
DNA samples from several dozen relatives of Adolf Hitler indicate that the monster of the 20th century very likely had some Jewish ancestry, reports the Jerusalem Post. The newspaper explains, “His father, Alois, was thought by some to have been the illegitimate offspring of a maid . . . . Continue Reading »
Adam Kirsch, whose poetry I admire, has a surprisingly muddled argument on the value of great books for world leaders in a recent article for The New Republic . Responding to Charles Hill’s argument in Grand Strategies: Literature, Statecraft, and World Order that great books tutor leaders in . . . . Continue Reading »
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