A week from tonight at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin the Tallis Scholars will be singing music from the Spanish Renaissance: Alonso Lobo Missa Maria Magdalenae Tomás Luis de Victoria Three Lamentations for Holy Saturday Dum complerentur Francisco Guerrero Ave Virgo sanctissima Regina . . . . Continue Reading »
An FT reader notes that Theodore Dalrymple’s diagnosis of FAS (False Apology Syndrome) was, in fact, identified by C.S. Lewis. The year was 1940, and it was the thing among young British intellectuals and Christians—”last-year undergraduates and first-year curates”—to . . . . Continue Reading »
If you are a Christian graduate student you may be interested in the Harvey Fellowship . This program targets students “who possess a unique vision to impact society through their fields and who are pursuing graduate studies at premier institutions (top five) in their disciplines in the . . . . Continue Reading »
From a reader, responding to Nathaniel’s post : I had a habit of rereading the Lord of the Rings every year during the summer for a decade, and in the past three years, I’ve read the entire Patrick O’Brian series twice because times were bad, and I turn to swashbucklers when . . . . Continue Reading »
My own attempt to define the conservatism I believe in - the antithesis of much of the current Bush-Cheney-Palin GOP - is in my book, " The Conservative Soul ." If you’re interested in a more abstract and academic account of the philosophical roots of my take on post-modern . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve heard priests remark about the disconcerting tendency of penitents to confess other people’s sins. “Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. My spouse got angry because I misplaced the car keys . . . ” Then, there’s our curious compulsion to confess offenses that are . . . . Continue Reading »
I was interviewed by Albert Mohler last week about human exceptionalism, Spain being poised to legalize the Great Ape Project, Ecuador and “nature rights,” PETA, and other matters. Mohler is the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and he comes to issues from a . . . . Continue Reading »
A study has found that people with serious cognitive impairments who are conscious—people who are routinely dehydrated to death in most states—feel pain. From the story: Severely brain-damaged patients in a “minimally conscious state” may still feel pain and require . . . . Continue Reading »
In another study under-reported by the MSM because it cuts against assisted suicide, UK researchers found that about a quarter of assisted suicide requests in Oregon were depressed, and yet received lethal prescriptions. From the story:Now a new study shows one-in-four patients who requested lethal . . . . Continue Reading »
No, Tina Turner isn’t coming out with a new single (as far as we know). But Msgr. Lorenzo Albacete of Communion & Liberation is giving a series of lectures at Columbia here in New York with that title. The topics and dates are as follows: FAITH AND POLITICS: Do they mix? Wed., October 15, . . . . Continue Reading »
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