From the Vatican Information Service : Today’s vote manifests the sentiment of the majority of the international community and recognises a more significant presence to Palestinians within the United Nations. At the same time, it is the conviction of the Holy See that this result does not . . . . Continue Reading »
Half of Women Bishops Opponents Were Women John Bingham, The Telegraph The Bad News: Gentlemanly Behavior Makes People Happy Charles Murray, AEI Euro Coin with Sts. Cyril and Methodius Prevails Rorate Caeli Thinking About Things (Other Than Politics) C. C. Pecknold, Ethika Politika Santa Claus vs. . . . . Continue Reading »
Ramesh Ponnuru disagrees with the idea that Republican rape theoreticians Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock were a major cause on the Republican Party’s disastrous Senate outcome in which they lost 25 out of 33 Senate races. Ponnuru rightly points out that Republicans lots of different races . . . . Continue Reading »
report: The U.S. birth rate dipped in 2011 to the lowest ever recorded, led by a plunge in births to immigrant women since the onset of the Great Recession. The overall U.S. birth rate, which is the annual number of births per 1,000 women in the prime childbearing ages of 15 to 44, declined 8% from . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend as Tom Harmon is big on a CONSERVATIVE yet POSTMODERN response to the exchange in PUBLIC DISCOURSE . I’m glad, of course, to see the exhange, although it doesn’t cover new ground. PM’s attempt to be all civil theological about the Declaration depends on an . . . . Continue Reading »
I will be dating myself in this post, I’m sure, and I’ll also be poaching on the territory of rock ‘n’ roll expert Carl Scott over at Postmodern Conservative . But like a lot of people, I guess, I find that while my musical taste has not stood entirely still with the . . . . Continue Reading »
The AP’s decision to drop the use of the word “homophobia” has been met with wide approval among Christian and other moral traditionalists. This presents a problem, however, for those who have grown accustomed to using the term “Christophobia.” The AP recommended . . . . Continue Reading »
On Public Discourse, Vincent Phillip Muñoz responds to his colleague Patrick Deneen’s critique of liberalism (” Unsustainable Liberalism ,” which appeared in our August/September issue). He says he’s “largely sympathetic” to Deneen’s views, yet . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga on the variety of Bible translations : Growing up in the 1980s, it seemed there were a few basic Bible translations different Christians in my circles used. My Evangelical friends had the New International Version (NIV), we Lutherans had the Revised Standard Version (RSV), and my . . . . Continue Reading »
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