So Protestants in their ways degraded marriage by depriving it of sacramental status as a manifestation of the divine personal logos in the world. Marriage became predominately natural but still holy and Christian. It wasn’t rechained to the paganism of aristocratic patriarchy. For most . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago I wrote a sharply worded attack on Ken Mehlman’s argument that supporting gay marriage is the properly “conservative” position. David Blankenhorn offered some thoughtful reflections about what’s at stake for me (and others). He raises a key question. Can those of us who . . . . Continue Reading »
How Often Do You Get Bitten? tells the story of a young man who (as a friend put it) seems to have found his vocation in a way most people never do, and it’s a vocation he can be proud of. Sean Casey, who founded and runs . . . wait for it . . . Sean Casey Animal Rescue in Windsor Terrace, a . . . . Continue Reading »
Listen, I’m not against some kind of DREAM Act-type law that deals with several kinds of hard cases when it comes to immigration (though I want to see the details.) I would actually be in favor of such a law, but the postelection Republican focus on “comprehensive” immigration . . . . Continue Reading »
If you want to bark back at the legacy media praise of the cease-fire our president recently had a hand in arranging, then this Powerline piece , emphasizing the assertion of emergency-powers by Egypt’s president Mohamed Morsi in the immediate aftermath of his role in that cease-fire, is just . . . . Continue Reading »
Something that may be of interest to writers: In his essay Romanticism and Classicism (1911), two very slippery terms, the English poet and critic T. E. Hulme wrote The best way of gliding into a proper definition of my terms would be to start with a set of people who are prepared to fight about . . . . Continue Reading »
” So today’s would-be Lysistratas need to develop ways of stigmatizing young women who too readily say yes to sex, just as unions do to scabs and strikebreakers. What a feminist triumph that would be .” says James Taranto, discussing hook-up culture and the arguments about . . . . Continue Reading »
Bringing new meaning to “Black Friday,” Planned Parenthood’s south Florida branch offered a “one-day deal” promising up to $10 in savings to customers who came in the day after Thanksgiving: The Friday after Thanksgiving begins our popular anticipation of . . . . Continue Reading »
In a way, this piece, The GOP Turnout Myth, by Kimberley Strassell in the Wall Street Journal is very good to read. It makes me happy. I had heard and had been saying that conservatives stayed home and felt terrible about that. They didn’t care? How awful is . . . . Continue Reading »
In a post yesterday, Eve Tushnet quotes a Christianity Today writer named Marlena Graves , who wonders “about all the godly men who may have other spiritual gifts—just not the ones traditionally considered ‘male’ spiritual gifts. For example, what about men who have the gift . . . . Continue Reading »
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