The Ideal English Major Mark Edmundson, Chronicle of Higher Education An Anti-Libertarian Populism? W. W., Democracy in America The Community of Friends in Apollonius’ Argonautika Coyle Neal, Anamnesis The Use and Abuse of Samuel Johnson Ian Crowe, University Bookman The Bishops Are Wrong on . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Confessions , St. Augustine records how a friend of his, the doctor Vindicianus, was instrumental in leading him away from astrology. When St. Augustine asked how, if astrology were false, some of its prophecies nevertheless seemed to come true, Vindicianus chalked it up to luck: an . . . . Continue Reading »
photo by Sarah Nichols When I was in college, I lived one summer on the north side of Chicago in the Uptown neighborhood. Across the street from my apartment was an old high-rise building with an awning bearing the unlikely name “The Friendly Towers.” I soon learned that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Less noticed than references to homosexuality in Pope Francis’ widely circulated remarks to the press on the Rio-to-Rome papal airplane was this comment on developing a theology of women: The role of women doesn’t end just with being a mother and with house work . . . we . . . . Continue Reading »
You don’t have to agree with everything Josh Barro says or how he says it, but he has a point here: Namely, these strategies all accept the premise that middle-class entitlements are unsustainable and must be constrained, and that one purpose of this constraint should be to make the federal . . . . Continue Reading »
As Matt Franck notes, Aslan’s PhD dissertation focuses on the rise of jihadism in the twentieth century. But what about the content of his research and its value to scholars? Are Aslan’s critics unfairly attacking him for his background just because he doesn’t have the right . . . . Continue Reading »
In his Monday On the Square , Timothy George takes square aim at those who would sanitize biblical language about the holy anger of the world’s judge: ” Sin , judgment , cross , even Christ have become problematic terms in much contemporary . . . . Continue Reading »
In this morning’s column , R.R. Reno describes a former pastor who has now parted ways with orthodox Church teaching: Half-a-dozen years before he administered to me the grace of full communion he came to serve as the pastor of St. John’s, the church on the Creighton University campus, . . . . Continue Reading »
Christians haven’t been thrilled with Reza Aslan’s new book, Zealot: The Life and Times Jesus of Nazareth . His search for Jesus finds a fresh version of the “historical Jesus.” Over the last couple of hundred years the “historical Jesus” seems to sound an . . . . Continue Reading »
There is a bit of a hubbub about an interview conducted by Lauren Green, religion correspondent for Fox News Channel, with Reza Aslan, author of a new book on Jesus titled Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. Our friend Joe Carter, over at GetReligion, has the basic . . . . Continue Reading »
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