For reasons I’ve discussed before , elite opinion in the West is uncomfortable with the idea of Christians as a persecuted minority. At least since the Enlightenment, Western intellectuals, as a class, have seen traditional Christians as adversaries to be resisted, not victims to be rescued. . . . . Continue Reading »
The universe is “built in a way that to me suggests intelligent design,” says Stephen King in an interview with NPR : If you say, “Well, OK, I don’t believe in God. There’s no evidence of God,” then you’re missing the stars in the sky and you’re . . . . Continue Reading »
The Book N. T. Wright Didn’t Write Jeremy Weber, Gleanings Omnipotence and the ‘Delimiter of Possibilities’ View Kenny Pearce, Prosblogion Copperheads, Community, and Those We Have Lost Bill Kauffman & Gerald J. Russello, University Bookman On the Hannah Arendt Movie J. . . . . Continue Reading »
So I just haven’t had time to post. But tonight in my mail I found two “issues” that you might want to explore. Here’s the first, as explored in the NYT . Should we change the names of the ten army bases named after Confederate generals? We could explore the merits of the . . . . Continue Reading »
These conservative reformers are total frauds. They don’t really want to change policy. That’s why they would never support cutting taxes on working-class families partly by eliminating deductions for high-earners. It is also why none of them have come up . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Levatino testified before Congress regarding the realities of abortion. His description is difficult to listen to, but Americans need to know what is really going on. Watch to the end. He ends with comments on the topic of abortion and women’s health. In discussing saving women’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Noah Baumbach loves Greta Gerwig and its not funny. Frances Ha is amusing, but the “ha” is always on its own, without an accompanying “ha” (repeat) that makes for real laughter. The movie is and is not about Greta Gerwig. Greta Gerwig has had a very . . . . Continue Reading »
Faith, in Poetry Mark Oppenheimer, Yale Alumni Magazine How Proust Can Save Memorial Day (Really) Robert Royal, Catholic Thing Amidst Jihadist Hatred, Something New Abraham Kuruvilla, Coptic Orphans Stay Out of Syria David Bromwich, New York Review of Books Gatsby Madness and the Millennials Emily . . . . Continue Reading »
Law has an outsized influence on American culture. And, according to University of Michigan Law Professor Dan Crane, religious skeptics have an outsized influence on the legal profession . He refers to a recent survey of students at an elite law school: According to Pew Forum data, people who . . . . Continue Reading »
For FT readers in the area, I’ll be giving a talk, “Psychic Sophie and the Rise of the Nones,” next week at the European University Institute in Florence. My talk will be sponsored by the Institute’s ReligioWest project. Here’s the abstract: The most important story in . . . . Continue Reading »
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