For one week at least, First Thoughts wasn’t the only blog where readers could find a more than occasional and passing defense of what has come to be called “traditional” marriage. That thanks to the editors of Ricochet , where Ryan T. Anderson devoted a . . . . Continue Reading »
On Supererogation Alexander R. Pruss, Alexander Pruss’ Blog Irenaeus Did Not Teach Self-Fulfillment Patrick Henry Reardon, Touchstone The Kingdom & Anti-Intellectualism James K. A. Smith, Fors Clavigera What Will American Christianity Look Like in Fifty Years? Silouan Thompson, Silouan . . . . Continue Reading »
Anna Williams says (in her post ” Christians and LGBT Bullying “) that she was left uneasy by Austin Ruse’s post last week on the not-exactly-impoverished population of gays and lesbians in the U.S. This, I think, might have been prompted as much by a commenter’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Rev. James V. Schall, S.J.’s “last lecture” is now available online. (h/t: Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy ) . . . . Continue Reading »
Austin Ruse’s post last week on the wealth and political power of gays and lesbians left me uneasy. That’s not because I thought his point was entirely illegitimate (it’s fair to point out that the situation of non-straight people today is not exactly comparable to that of . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on Therese and the death penalty : Therese was convinced her prayers had helped save the forsaken Pranzini from damnation. He became for her “mon premier enfant”—“my first child”—and the experience strengthened her conviction to become a Carmelite . . . . Continue Reading »
Kairos Quarterly , a new journal published by the Orthodox Hermitage of the Holy Cross in West Virginia, writes about the interesting phenomenon of Old Calendar Protestants: As a Russian Orthodox monastery which observes the Julian, or “old”, calendar, we were surprised to learn about . . . . Continue Reading »
Regarding Roger Scruton’s quarrel with Paul Griffiths about the relation of marriage to the state, Lord Stowell’s analysis in Dalrymple v Dalrymple seems very apposite: Marriage in its origin is a contract of natural law; it may exist between two individuals of different sexes although . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friends Alan Jacobs and David Goldman give their thoughts on The Hobbit , a quick response to which I wrote on Saturday. Alan’s review is fairly critical. Reacting to all the action — what I called the “bang/pow/slash/crash/boom” stuff — he wrote: all I could . . . . Continue Reading »
The Jewish Daily Forward reports that British schools will be required to offer at least one of seven foreign languages, excluding Hebrew: LONDON — The British government reportedly is planning to exclude Hebrew from a list of recognized foreign languages in the national education . . . . Continue Reading »
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