Fred Luter, the current president of the Southern Baptist Convention, caused a theological controversy last week. On a radio show March 27th, the host asked Luter whether he believed that North Korea’s sabre rattling had anything to do with God judging America for debating same-sex marriage. . . . . Continue Reading »
Dominic Gondreau’s Special Vocation Paul Gondreau, Huffington Post There Will Likely Be No Methodist Schism Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Who Was Athanasius Kircher? Paula Findlen, The Nation Being Gay at Falwell’s University Brandon Ambrosino, Atlantic Karl Barth and Three Forms of . . . . Continue Reading »
This “Spring” semester, my Songbook is movin’ like a tortoise, full of rigor mortis , but hey, I can at least throw you a few tidbits at you until the next post: 1) In California recently, gave my True Grit paper to favorable reaction, was delighted to meet pomocon commenter CJ . . . . Continue Reading »
Rachel and Harmony Korine We can get as close as we want so long as we maintain critical distance. This philosophy, primitively grasped, guides the four young women in Harmony Korine’s Spring Breakers , who skip through frame after frame of booze, bongs, and omnipresent breasts only to . . . . Continue Reading »
[caption id=”attachment_60786” align=”alignnone” width=”510”] Patriarch Athenagoras & Pope Paul VI (1965) / Patriarch Bartholomew & Pope Francis (2013)[/caption] As if Part 1 wasn’t impressive enough. . . . . Continue Reading »
at Slate: ...It turns out I was not—am not—alone. A March 2012 Purdue University study suggests that between 18 and 26 percent of adoptive mothers struggle with post-adoption depression, brought on by extreme fatigue, unrealistic expectations of parenthood or a lack of community support. . . . . Continue Reading »
Academy-Award-winning actor Jeremy Irons raised questions about same-sex marriage in an interview yesterday with HuffPostLive. “Could a father not marry his son?” asked Irons. “Well, there are laws against incest,” said the host. “It’s not incest between . . . . Continue Reading »
Well I certainly would have had more time to watch pro wrestling. Did the sheer number of debates help the joke candidates who had no hope of winning the presidential election. I looked at the Real Clear Politics polling average for Iowa and looked at the debate schedule. . . . . Continue Reading »
Thanks to the generosity of the First Things editorial staff, today is the debut of my biweekly On The Square column. It is on the Republican party and the lower middle-class. . . . . Continue Reading »
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