So here’s still more from my (endless) BYU lecture. This part includes issues that I might well have skipped as above my pay grade, except they were of special interest to my audience. Our friends and expert bloggers THE BROTHERS JUDD said my previous post on marriage vs. existential . . . . Continue Reading »
Explaining the Episcopal Battle in South Carolina (audio) Nick Eicher and Jeff Walton, World The Counterintuitive Calvin Tim Keller, The Gospel Coalition A Response to George Weigel’s Marriage Summons Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law The Immaculate Conception and the East Mark Shea, . . . . Continue Reading »
This time with spoilers. Here . . . . . Continue Reading »
Time for a dose of the surreal—Slavoj Zizek says Donald Trump is channeling spiritual genius : Yurodivy is the Russian Orthodox version of the holy fool who feigns insanity so he can deliver a message so dangerous for those in power that, if stated directly, it would cause a brutal . . . . Continue Reading »
On his Discover magazine blog, Carl Zimmer defends the infamously tedious thirty-second chapter of Moby-Dick . That’s the chapter entitled “Cetology” in which Ishmael endeavors to define and classify the various types of whales. Or as he more grandiloquently describes his project: . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on the crisis of a second Obama administration : President Obama’s re-election and the prospect of a second Obama administration, freed from the constraints imposed by the necessity of running for re-election, have created a crisis for the Catholic Church in the United States. In . . . . Continue Reading »
Why are scenarios from Greek tragedy the source of so many motifs in modern thought, specifically in continental philosophy from the eighteenth century onward? Are modern writers simply mining the ancients for imagery, calling for a revival of interest, or doing something more subtle, like . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cult of Art’s Last Stand Matthew Milliner, Millinerd Tikkun Olam Is Trending Sigal Samuel, Daily Beast Hedonist, Disciple, or Bourgeois? Eve Tushnet, The American Conservative Did St. Thomas Aquinas Believe in Ghosts? Br. John Maria Devaney, O.P., Dominicana Bishops and Bloggers Meet in . . . . Continue Reading »
Bret Stephens wants the GOP to “get a grip” and “tone down the abortion extremism.” So let’s do a hypothetical exercise. Imagine that the 2012 Republican nominee believed in the rape, incest and life of the mother exceptions to abortion restrictions. Now let us further . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s another excerpt from the talk I gave at BYU. “Gave,” of course, doesn’t mean I really read the whole darn thing. We are, as persons, whole beings. There’s no true distinction between being a person and being a human being. We free persons have bodies, and our . . . . Continue Reading »
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