Our friends at the Thomistic Institute are proud to announce a series of six lectures at the Catholic Center at New York University, themed around the Catholic faith’s intersection with the arts. Running from September to February, the lecture series will host scholars, pastors, and writers. . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday the FT blog saw much discussion of the Reza Aslan interview on FOX News. Today Timothy Michael Law, editor of Marginalia Review of Books , posted his spoof of the interview. LAUREN GREEN: Timothy Michael Law has never been a Hellenistic Jew but has always followed the faith of his . . . . Continue Reading »
While Peter has invited a discussion of “archaic conservatism” and “libertarian populism”—labels so nuanced or recondite as to befuddle the mind—we here in Charlottesville are still observing Tocqueville’s birthday, which warrants a one-week celebration. And if . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square , Keith Riler debunks the notion that abortion saves money: The birth of anyone, poor or not, will yield substantial economic benefit. Specifically, in Texas the $11,000 Medicaid-birth cost will on average return $430,000, or thirty-nine times the investment, in . . . . Continue Reading »
In this morning’s column , Elizabeth Scalia gives the context for Pope Francis’ recent statements regarding homosexuality: On the return to Rome, the Holy Father—perhaps feeling energized by a spectacularly successful event that saw an estimated three million souls gather for Mass . . . . Continue Reading »
It looks like I really stirred things up yesterday with my post ” Reza Aslan Misrepresents His Scholarly Credentials ,” especially after Drudge linked to it in the afternoon. Some folks in the comments and on Twitter thought I had destroyed Aslan’s credibility in toto —which . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Vines has assigned my book, Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality , as one of the core texts of his new training program, The Reformation Project . Matthew disagrees with my conclusions in the book, but he assigned it so that the participants in the . . . . Continue Reading »
Continuing my reflections on the coup, prompted by Reuel Marc Gerecht’s essay (linked below). Perhaps his key sentence was this one: As long as the religious are more numerous, political parties that explicitly claim the faith will have an advantage over the secular, intellectually . . . . Continue Reading »
Claiming to speak for an entire generation to which she admittedly does not entirely belong, Rachel Held Evans tells us why Millennials are leaving the church. A sample of the reasons she cites: Armed with the latest surveys, along with personal testimonies from friends and readers, I explain how . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, we still haven’t managed to get Jean Yarbrough SIGNED UP as a regular contributor. So I have to pass on her email messages to me to you about my post on Jim’s election book: I want to offer a somewhat different formulation: Obama did not offer conservatism in the precise sense. . . . . Continue Reading »
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