in the Huffington Post; and I realize this may appear tangential for Kinship & Culture, but volunteering at a crisis pregnancy center has made me see how many of these issues, especially the incarceration rate and the need to reintegrate people who have served their time, are crucial . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of you may read this while watching the presidential debate and otherwise multitasking your way through the competing interests of the evening. Stop it, Fr. David Ousley would tell you. The whole idea of multitasking as something good is based on the assumption that life is about getting . . . . Continue Reading »
It turns out Mitt was right , but he probably won’t carry the media day. Bobby Jindal is trying with great force to correct the record on CNN right now. Republicans need to fight hard on the spin circuit on this. In general, Obama was between energetic and angry, as opposed to listless and . . . . Continue Reading »
Dr. Denis McNamara of the Liturgical Institute at Mundelein Seminary in Illinois is an expert on ecclesiastical architecture and is a major figure in today’s liturgical renewal, consulting on many church renovation projects. He’s the author of Catholic Church Architecture and the Spirit . . . . Continue Reading »
Yumiko Kurahashi’s The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q (1969) is unlike any anti-Communist novel I have ever read, probably because it is a surrealist Japanese satire of Communism written by a female author, and there is reason to assume it is the only such book in existence. That pile of . . . . Continue Reading »
Person One: The U.S. Constitution , the text as a poster board visible but all torn and battered up, and some kind of Obama-branded SHREDDER as a prop. Person Two: The U.S. Economy —here all that’s needed is lots of fake bruises, bleeding, chains, crumpled bills, slow-sickly movements, . . . . Continue Reading »
I remember Mitt Romney’s town hall debate against Ted Kennedy in 1994. It seemed like most of the questions were premised on the desirability of state expansion. When one questioner asked a question that was critical of Kennedy, the other “undecided” voters hissed and groaned. . . . . Continue Reading »
in the New York Times: ...Reflexively, the affluent, ambitious parent is always talking, pointing out, explaining: Mommy is looking for her laptop; let’s put on your rain boots; that’s a pigeon, a sand dune, skyscraper, a pomegranate. The child, in essence, exists in continuous receipt . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas Albert Howard, a Gordon College history professor and Protestant, observes on The Anxious Bench blog that this month marks the fiftieth anniversary of Vatican II and the four-hundred ninety-fifth anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. “The two anniversaries are connected,” he . . . . Continue Reading »
I made many of my close friends—-and learned a good deal to boot—-at the first Love and Fidelity Network conferences, and so I’m happy to commend this year’s upcoming conference taking place on the Princeton University campus on November 2nd and 3rd. The conference begins . . . . Continue Reading »
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