Holiday Shopping and the Class Divide Brandon McGinley, Acculturated Casuistry and Torture Aaron Taylor, Ethika Poltika Bursting the Hirshhorn’s Bubble Bruce Cole, New Criterion Would Someone Just Shut That Pope Up? Patrick J. Deneen, American Conservative How to Make Walking Cool Wayne . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s striking—or it should be—that Genesis does not mention “male and female” until it comes to the human creation (1:27). Before that there’s seed bearing fruit and the blessing of procreation, “be fruitful and multiply,” which establishes the sexual reproduction of the beasts of . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Thursday! Here’s what we have for you today. Peter Leithart is reading about: Cornelius Van Til , the humanity of Christ, Ukraine , and bodies . Dr. Boli gets into the posters-for-your-dentist’s-office game . Here at First Thoughts , Phillip Cary writes about what God did not find . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a striking omission from the Hebrew text of Genesis 1, on the second day of creation. It is the day when God creates Heaven, and the omission is that he does not see it as good. Every other day of creation has God seeing that his work is good, but not this one. The omission is so striking . . . . Continue Reading »
Just in time for the Christmas Wars, the Journal of Catholic Legal Studies has published papers from a symposium on state-sponsored religious displays that the Center for Law and Religion co-sponsored with our our sister school, the Libera Universita Maria SS Assunta (LUMSA), in Rome . . . . Continue Reading »
Dude, Where’s My Being? Ed Feser In Search of Humanism Among the Primates Phillip Sherman, Marginalia Literature and Bureaucracy Tim Parks, New York Review of Books The Intellectual Civil War within Evangelicalism Tiffany Stanley, Religion & Politics Fear of Priests, Nuns Storming Embassy . . . . Continue Reading »
When Cardinal Jorge Borgoglio became Francis there was a ripple of excitement that ran through parts of the Pentecostal community. This excitement was related to then Cardinal Borgoglio’s actions in Argentina as represented in the picture of prayers being offered for him by Raniero . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Postmodern Conservative , Pete Spiliakos is still pondering the problems Scott Walker 2016 may face. Peter Leithart is reading about: the Puritans (more here ), ecclesiology . Tips from Dr. Boli : “An ordinary automobile will consume 6% less fuel if you name it Jeremy.” Here at . . . . Continue Reading »
A couple of recent events have highlighted one or two of the peculiarities of the subculture of American Christianity, specifically evangelical Christianity. First, Ergun Caner is suing a couple of pastors in an attempt to keep some material pertaining to his life from being published on the . . . . Continue Reading »
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