Well, it’s Friday. Here’s some reading for you as we head into the weekend: Over at Postmodern Conservative , Peter Lawler posts about the DECONSTRUCTION of MARRIAGE. Peter Leithart has blog posts on Revelation , N. T. Wright , and the Queen of the Sciences (er, Humanities). Advice from . . . . Continue Reading »
New York City Events: Newman and His Family Thursday, November 14 Edward Short, author of Newman and His Family , will give a book signing and a talk at 6:30 at the Church of the Holy Family, 315 East 47th Street. Call (212) 419-5370 with questions. C.S. Lewis: In Memoriam Saturday, November 23 The . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s another rough and dirty SNIPPET from my upcoming lecture on the FREE AND RELATIONAL PERSON AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION. The judicial movement to understand the person less relationally, or more as a free individual in the Lockean sense, began in 1965. The Court began, of course, . . . . Continue Reading »
History without Hermeneutics Thomas Pfau, Immanent Frame John Donne’s Preaching Style Virtual Paul’s Cross Project What Dido Did, Satan Saw, and O’Keeffe Painted Mark Bauerlein, New Criterion Should the Pro-Life Strategy Stress Implantation or Conception? Robert Vega, . . . . Continue Reading »
A vocal charismatic from western Canada, Sarah Bessey has just come out with her first book, Jesus Feminist . It’s a highly relational and popular account of how Bessey’s love for Jesus flows into her approach to female flourishing. As part of the launch for the book, she’s . . . . Continue Reading »
At Postmodern Conservative , James Ceasar writes about the “utter indifference” displayed toward people losing their health insurance. Peter Leithart is reading Michael Polanyi’s Personal Knowledge , opening his posts on the book with why we don’t understand the Copernican . . . . Continue Reading »
The debate over Obamacare is about to take an ominous turn. Critics are quite correct to point out that the cancellation of millions of insurance policies, apart from its being a breech of trust from what the President promised, will result in many people being forced to pay much larger premiums . . . . Continue Reading »
There is much hubbub these days over President Obama’s endlessly repeated, and quite false, claim that “if you like your health plan, you can keep it.” We now know pretty certainly that this was a knowing falsehood when uttered, over and over and over. And the effort to . . . . Continue Reading »
Dale Coulter is a fine historical theologian. His recent article at this space (“ Two Wings of Evangelicalism ”) helpfully provides perspective on the divide in evangelical theology. But it does not get at the root problems. Coulter rightly explains that the “confessionalist” . . . . Continue Reading »
Generation Fear Sophie Waugh, Spectator On Joshua Greene’s “Deep Pragmatism” Thomas Nagel, New Republic Faulkner’s Cocktail of Choice Robert Moore, Paris Review The Passion of Flannery O’Connor James Parker, Atlantic Christendom, Dead [video] Mark Driscoll, Resurgence . . . . Continue Reading »
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