And some tough comments on the vacuity of Romney’s campaign and the pandering of the president’s: The nature of the 2012 campaign poses an additional difficulty. I cannot remember an election in which the gap was greater between the magnitude of our problems and the substance of our . . . . Continue Reading »
Colm Toibin: You Have to Be Terrible to Write . . . Nigel Farndale, Telegraph Communing with Saints Molly T. Marshall, Associated Baptist Press Archdiocese of Boston: Resurrection Patrick Doyle, Boston Magazine How Europe Was Crushed John Connelly, Washington Post When Smart Theologians Endorse . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Our Ralph had a couple of minor strokes that don’t seem to have had any permanent effect on him. Apparently he had one in the middle of our conference and carried on with perfect hospitality for the rest of the day. I got an email from him this morning full of vertical and horizontal . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Henninger is not the only columnist to note what the president has done to motivate evangelical Christians in this year’s election, but I like the way he writes about it. ” Romney’s Secret Voting Bloc ” is something of a miracle. “There and in other . . . . Continue Reading »
Three years ago this month First Things launched this blog to provide a space for a broad range of evangelical viewpoints. We’ve had dozens of contributors, more than 1,500 posts, and nearly 20,000 comments. But today it’s time for us to say goodbye. Group blogs that have numerous . . . . Continue Reading »
If you are a regular reader of Public Discourse (and if you’re not, you should be!), you will already have seen my two latest contributions there. Yesterday, in ” Mark Regnerus and the Storm Over the New Family Structures Study ,” I described the furor that erupted back in . . . . Continue Reading »
Hadley Arkes, a member of the First Things advisory council, spots a problem in our current discussions of the right to religious freedom. On Right Reason he points out : We cannot insist on the one hand that our judgments on law and public policy are formed of moral reasoning and the Natural Law . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of you will have seen this, but I send it along since some of you haven’t (I hadn’t, as far as I remember, but then one’s mind blanks out such things). Your submissions make Baby Jesus cry offers fifty examples of failed attempts at ecclesiastical art. Many of them make me . . . . Continue Reading »
Protestant Christians have much to teach the rest of us about loving and dwelling on God’s word. One striking new expression of this piety comes in the form of designing one’s own Bible. An early examplar of what we can hope will become a much more common practice is Chad Whitacre, . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy George on Reformation Day : It was around two o’clock in the afternoon on the eve of the Day of All Saints, October 31, 1517, when Martin Luther, hammer in hand, approached the main north door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church) in Wittenberg and nailed up his Ninety-Five . . . . Continue Reading »
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