reports: Children are going through puberty at an increasingly early age, and the changes to their bodies are also affecting their mental health, new research says. Biological changes are happening earlier in children around the world - in 1860, the average age for European girls to develop breasts . . . . Continue Reading »
reports: Nearly one in five births to U.S. teens ages 15-19 is not a first child, says a federal report out today. Of the 365,000 teens who gave birth in 2010, almost 67,000 (18.3%) have had at least one child before, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. . . . . Continue Reading »
A new play written by a Russian Orthodox priest depicts Harry Potter discovering he has been baptized and then battling Voldemort with the help of Saint Cyprianus : Harry rushes to see Dumbledore, who tells him to find the one who created everything, as hes the only power that can . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . because a devastating attack from North Korea is promised tomorrow. I really don’t know what to make of this. I agree, of course, with Carl on the tyranno-pathological character of the regime. That means, of course, that we can’t be sure they won’t do something really . . . . Continue Reading »
Feminism of the primitive observance meets Third-wave feminism in this unusual story . Calliope Wong, who self-identifies as neither male nor female, applied to the famously “lifestyle left” and female-only Smith College, only to be turned down on grounds of gender. The story, . . . . Continue Reading »
Anna Williams on Romeo and Juliet : Alyssa Rosenberg argues on Slate that Romeo and Juliet is full of terrible, deeply childish ideas about love. Shes quite right . . . because thats the point of the play. Reading the text, instead of . . . . Continue Reading »
The New York C. S. Lewis Society will host our own David Mills for a lecture on the great Inkling next week here in Manhattan: “A Writer Looks at How Lewis Wrote So Well” Friday, April 12 7:30 p.m. The Parish House of The Church of the Ascension . . . . Continue Reading »
I recently reviewed David Swartzs Moral Minority for Books & Culture . Swartz is a gifted writer, and his book was a pleasure to read. Davids history of the evangelical left is a pleasure to read (and it should be so even for those on the opposite side of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Gene Edward Veith, author of God at Work: Your Christian Vocation in all of Life and Family Vocation: Gods Calling in Marriage, Parenthood, and Childhood (among numerous other books), has a new article on vocation over at Intercollegiate Review . In that article How to find your . . . . Continue Reading »
The Bitter Fool David Yezzi, New Criterion The First Pope Francis Book Mark Judge, RealClearBooks Lordship, Millennialism, and Heresy Stelios Vasilis Perdios, Medievalists Urban Planning and the Church ‘Halo Effect’ Lorna Dueck, Globe & Mail Orthodoxy & Oprah-doxy Napp . . . . Continue Reading »