Mark Driscoll has been living with accusations of plagiarism for the last three weeks. A radio host spotted some suspicious passages in his latest book and asked him to make sure they were properly credited in future editions. Then she found some cut-and-paste passages in another of his works. ( . . . . Continue Reading »
A Heschel Master Class David Wolpe, Tablet Who Is Donna Tartt? Mick Brown, Telegraph Triumph of the Maternalists Nancy McDermott, Spiked A Secular Saint? Erin Wilson, ABC Religion & Ethics The New Old High Churchmen Fr. Jonathan, Conciliar Anglican . . . . Continue Reading »
Advent evokes struggle, the struggle to let in the light and dispel the darkness. Preparing the way of the Lord is not a passive enterprise, but a peregrination to break through the veil with prayers, praises, and lamentations so that the rays of righteousness may peer over the horizon igniting the . . . . Continue Reading »
In Genesis the goodness of creation requires what I have called a logic of otherness , in which dualities that could become divisions or antagonisms are united for the good. The basic structure of this logic is: (1) first one, then the other, (2) the one for the good of the other, and (3) the one . . . . Continue Reading »
That the language of love has become utterly sentimentalized in our society is a commonplace. Once it was a hardheaded, self-sacrificial, outward looking concept which looked to the well-being and needs of others. Now it often means little more than that which makes me feel good or brings personal . . . . Continue Reading »
So I’ve been asked to say more about the Burke-Strauss conference. Well, I don’t want to give away too many secrets. I will say that the discussion concluded inconclusively, as is appropriate. But I will make some general comments. It does seem that Strauss makes a . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl has commanded us to talk about impeaching Obama: Little repulsed me more than the Republican approach to impeaching Clinton. They acted that it was self-evident that he should be removed, and so they didn’t campaign on that case in 1998. The result was, of course, the . . . . Continue Reading »
Hopkins’ Agony of Spirit Edward Short, Weekly Standard Die, Selfish Gene David Dobbs, Aeon Handel’s Messiah at the Abyssinian Baptist Church A Journey Through NYC Religions The Elements of Eloquence Christopher Howse, Spectator An Ode to Calvinism Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”” align=”alignnone” width=”480”] Indian Schoolchildren Doing Yoga ( NYT ) [/caption] Last summer, I wrote about a constitutional challenge to yoga classes in California public schools . When a school district near San Diego added yoga to its . . . . Continue Reading »
In previous posts I have been thinking about striking moments early in Genesis that have to do with male and female—familiar moments with little-noticed features that are striking once you see them. Here is another one: the commandment not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil is . . . . Continue Reading »
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