Commonweal has a triple feature on Thomas Nagel’s much-discussed Mind and Cosmos with contributions from philosopher Gary Gutting, biologist Kenneth R. Miller, and physicist (and First Things advisory council member) Stephen M. Barr. Here’s an excerpt from Barr’s essay: . . . . Continue Reading »
Here is the Statement regarding police measures on Holy Saturday issued by the patriarchs and heads of local churches of Jerusalem, after police assaulted Christian pilgrims, including an 85-year-old Coptic priest. “We understand,” they said, the necessity and the importance of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert , one of the most important things about that excellent Charles Capps article you point us to is that it reminds us of the possibility of a stable compromise in the marriage debate. This need not be a war to the death where one side or the other gets everything it wants. Capps is . . . . Continue Reading »
Recent news that Christians (including clergy and foreign diplomats) were attacked by Israeli police as they attempted to enter the Church of the Holy Sepulchre the day before Orthodox Easter stands as a stark reminder of the difficulties Christians face in the Holy Land. Israel is a land which . . . . Continue Reading »
Marxists, libertarians, and other progressives often mistake conservatives for reactionaries. Conservatives, the progressive allegation is, want to return us to a time when we were less free and less responsible. And that’s because we have a romantic or even utopian view of the past. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Trends and Directions in Reformed Theology [.pdf] Dirkie Smit, Expository Times The Problem with Wedding Poetry Ruth Graham, Poetry Foundation From Anarchists to Islamists Charles C. Johnson, City Journal King Louis’ Irish Confessor Rev. George W. Rutler, Crisis The Vatican at the Venice . . . . Continue Reading »
Romney campaign honcho Stuart Stevens is getting some mockery for his assertion that lots of people thought that Romney was a Catholic against contraception at the end of the primary season. To the extent that Stevens is blaming any part of Romney’s loss on the public’s mistaking Romney . . . . Continue Reading »
Friend of Postmodern Conservative Ken Masugi writes over at the Liberty Law blog that the biggest problem of the IRS scandal is not corruption within the Obama administration as such, or even problematic management by Obama and his political appointees. The problem is that elements of . . . . Continue Reading »
Earlier this month, Christopher Warner at the Catholic World Report interviewed Archimandrite Robert Taft , S.J., a Byzantine Catholic priest and professor emeritus of Oriental Liturgy at the Pontifical Oriental Institute , about Catholic-Orthodox relations and the prospects for future unity: . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m writing a long article on this topic. And I’m going share parts of it with you two paragraphs at a time. It would be more interesting to talk about the president losing control of his own spins in ways that reveal (as Carl is more insistent that I am) his deep inauthenticity or lack . . . . Continue Reading »
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