In a L’Osservatore Romano article titled “Jesus and the Children,” the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments declared that “delaying first communion deprive[s] children . . . of this grace, work and presence of Jesus, of this . . . . Continue Reading »
Why is the future of reasoned Christian disagreement endangered? Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, has a penetrating answer in “Knowing Myself in Christ,” an essay that belongs to The Way Forward?: Christian Voices on Homosexuality (Eerdmans, 2003), edited by Timothy Bradshaw. . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Words °°°°°° 2. The Calvin and Hobbes Search Engine °°°°°° 3. Mollie Ziegler Hemingway on Motherhood as Vocation How should Christians think about the Mommy Wars? Vocationally. You may have heard vocation used as a synonym for occupation. But . . . . Continue Reading »
Americans calling themselves sovereign citizens “don’t register children’s births, carry driver’s licenses or recognize the court system” and believe that “The government creates a secret identity for each citizen at birth, a ‘straw man,’ that . . . . Continue Reading »
You have probably gotten so used to seeing the announcement that you don’t notice it any more, but I commend to your attention our Students of Faith Survey . We would be grateful if readers who are in college or who graduated in the last couple of years would fill it out, and if the rest of . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert P. George (Princeton profile and photo here and Wikipedia article here ) will be appearing this evening at 8:00 on Raymond Arroyo’s show, “The World Live” on EWTN. The network offers a channel finder . George is a member of the First Things board. Among his “On . . . . Continue Reading »
The Lutheran theologian David Yeago offered a seminary professor’s view of plagiarism among ministers in response to my Pastoral Plagiarism . It spurred me to look on the web for other articles of his, and I came across one from last year that might still interest some of you thinking about . . . . Continue Reading »
Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann has assisted my understanding of genre and authorial intent in the so-called “first creation story” (Genesis 1:1-2:4a). I will distill his treatment from An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination. Work slowly . . . . Continue Reading »
This week we learned that the Pope will not accept the resignation of two Irish auxiliary bishops, Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field. The Murphy Report in 2009 implicated them in the larger failures of the Irish hierarchy to respond to sexual abuse by priest. John Allen at the National Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
There tends to be confusion in some responses to the recent decision to overturn Proposition 8 in California. On the one hand, defenders of traditional marriage often point to natural law, or if not natural law, at least a common wisdom about the natural purposes of marriage—a disciplining . . . . Continue Reading »
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