About Pete’s take on the Benghazi matter : I think is fairly clear in testimony that the Obama Administration did lie, did cover-up what had happened, and was totally disingenuous about the whole thing. Judgement call? It was a judgement call and about international . . . . Continue Reading »
I’ve never been able to get worked up about the Benghazi attack. I always thought that the refusal to order a prompt rescue mission was judgment call. The story cooked up that the attack was a response to a video was also pretty obviously a lie and a political attempt to prevent the story . . . . Continue Reading »
Geza Vermes died today from a reoccurrence of cancer. Religious studies has lost one of its most erudite and colorful scholars. Vermes was born to Jewish parents and converted to Roman Catholicism with them before WWII. After the war he became a Roman Catholic priest, but then returned to . . . . Continue Reading »
Permit me to connect what I take to be the dots between recent posts on John Milbank and by David T. Koyzis . For fun, you can also take a look at this post by Koyzis on another site. We have made an idol of choice, regarding it as the logical concomitant of our “natural” freedom. But . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”attachment_62111” align=”aligncenter” width=”510”] Willard lecturing at Azusa Pacific University in 2010. [/caption] Christianity Today : Dallas Willard, a prominent philosopher on a “quiet quest to subvert nominal . . . . Continue Reading »
The great Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, nicknamed the “Eternal One,” has passed away at the age of 94. The seven-times Prime Minister was an unassuming man : Andreotti would go to a different church every morning, and always leave as soon as Mass was over. He would . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel remembers Max Kampelman : He was a major figure in forcing human rights issues onto the U.S. foreign policy agenda, made an invaluable contribution to the moral delegitimation of the Soviet Union as ambassador for Presidents Carter and Reagan to the Madrid Review Conference . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent inquiry from a college instructor in search of philosophical arguments on the morality of abortion inspired us to compile the below list of resources, which, though far from comprehensive, may be of use to pro-lifers. I’ve sorted the list by type of resource. Free online articles: . . . . Continue Reading »
Once an intimate family affair, death and dying are now outsourced in America. Set in different centuries, stories from two of America’s greatest storytellers highlight the manner in which American encounters with death and dying have changed over the last two hundred years. Culled from . . . . Continue Reading »
Do All Twentysomething Evangelicals Hate the Suburbs? Keith Miller, Mere Orthodoxy I Still Love Kierkegaard Julian Baggini, Aeon The Argument from Divine Hiddenness Victor Reppert, Dangerous Idea A Caution re: Reading Bergoglio As Proto-Francis Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law Door-to-Door . . . . Continue Reading »
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