Thanks to some comments on an earlier post, I have learned that as many as twenty-eight states require insurance providers to include contraceptive coverage in the packages they offer. Twenty states offer some form of conscientious exemption from the requirement; eight—including . . . . Continue Reading »
This week’s issue of Time says that Roe v. Wade hobbled the pro-abortion movement. It’s a point that will be familiar to readers of our January issue, in which Jon Shields makes a similar argument: Roe v. Wade did far more than create a constitutional right to abortion—it . . . . Continue Reading »
Russell E. Saltzman asks what has Jesus done? What would Jesus do? That’s pretty hard to say, but it doesn’t prevent people from speculating about it. The what-would-Jesus-do fad seems to have faded somewhat, but only after raking in multi-million dollar sales in WWJD bracelets, . . . . Continue Reading »
Reason has a commendably subtle feature essay on the emerging relationship between Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Orthodox Church. The author, Cathy Young, refreshingly concedes that the present situation “is a far cry from theocracy” while still acknowledging the . . . . Continue Reading »
Nestled in the small chapel of the Heart’s Home in Brooklyn, on the floor below the altar, sat a small statue of Mary. As she was on the floor, I hadn’t noticed her until I knelt down below the tabernacle. She was kneeling with her hands resting on her knees, palms facing upward, gazing . . . . Continue Reading »
Graduate students may be interested in attending a two-day conference on moral philosophy in Pamplona, Spain, this March: The Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra and the Social Trends Institute have scheduled a two-day Seminar on Natural Law and Public Reason for graduate . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s a good old Anglo Saxon word, but it did not mean to grow angry, scowling, waiting the chance to strike. It meant, simply, to boil. Why didn’t the Anglo Saxons say boil if they meant boil? Or bo’ll, if they were from Southwark? Or . . . . Continue Reading »
Rated P. G. Ed Park, Bookforum A Very Good Year? Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Give Up the Historical Quest Against Jesus John Dickson, ABC Religion & Ethics The Culture of the Copy James Panero, The New Criterion How to Be a Pseudo-Intellectual Victoria Beale, The Book . . . . Continue Reading »
The audience reaction to a debate on the topic “Religious or spiritual or neither?”, writes the English lawyer Peter Smith , made him think. It apparently wasn’t what he expected. Audience questions challenged the contention of Andrew Copson, the chief executive . . . . Continue Reading »
Most of the “rules for blogging” I have come across—like Alan Jacobs’s “ Rules for Deportment for Online Discourse ”—focus on very basic things like avoiding ad hominem attacks and not arguing in bad faith. These rules seem to me to boil down to a general . . . . Continue Reading »
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