Evangelical Crisis of Authority R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Gospel Coalition Atheist Megachurches Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Tedious Twain David Grylls, New Statesman Monasticism and Marriage Chris Armstrong, Grateful to the Dead The Death of Writing, and Its Impact on Our Politics Chuck Raasch, . . . . Continue Reading »
In his short treatise How to Study Poetry , Plutarch (d. ca. 120) takes a somewhat cautious approach to the form. On the one hand, he commends poetry as providing an introduction to philosophy (in the ancient sense of a quest for wisdom to live a life that flourishes). On the other hand, he . . . . Continue Reading »
For New York area readers: the Crossroads Cultural Center is sponsoring the author of The Pope and the CEO , Andreas Widmer, speaking on Doing Business in a possibly dog-eat-dog world. He’ll be speaking at the American Bible Society (just up Broadway from Columbus Circle) two Fridays hence at . . . . Continue Reading »
Intrepid New York Times reporter Laurie Goodstein has gone out and interviewed seven—-count ‘em, seven!—-individuals, three of them in the same room, each more or less “conservative” in his or her Catholicism, and she found some of them—-not all—-willing to . . . . Continue Reading »
When an experienced columnist makes an argument this bad, it’s hard to judge whether he is disingenuous or just dimwitted. Today’s example is from the Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne , who says that if conservatives were really pro-life, as they claim, they wouldn’t be . . . . Continue Reading »
At the Center for Law and Religion Forum , my colleague Marc DeGirolami has a rundown of the various appellate court rulings to date in the ACA Contraceptives Mandate litigation, including last week’s Seventh Circuit decision. Check it out . . . . . Continue Reading »
A kind of On the Square classic, our former webmaster Joe Carter’s What a Veteran Knows , published on Veteran’s Day four years ago. (Leon and Amy Kass selected it for the Veterans Day section of their American Calendar .) It begins: “Thank you for your . . . . Continue Reading »
Ours are crummy and low times by all sorts of measures, but they do have their good sides. We finally, for example, seem able to cinematically look slavery in the eye. We’ve had the material since the origins of film-making. Solomon Northup’s book about his experience as a free black . . . . Continue Reading »
Kevin Noble Maillard is trying to read into the significance of New York City mayor-elect Bill de Blasio being part of an interracial marriage: Enter the domestic hipsterdom of racially mixed family, a multivalent Rorschach for political campaigns. It appeals to multiple demographic groups. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Pfau, the Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of English at Duke University, has written an incisive evaluation of Brad Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation at The Immanent Frame . I pass the piece on given interest in Gregory’s work among First Things’ readership and Ephraim . . . . Continue Reading »
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