Leroy Huizenga on ecclesiadicy : The ultimate issue for those who take seriously the question of which Christian communion they should belong to, I think, is not which ecclesial structure evinces the most holiness yesterday and today. Rather, the proper question is this: What structure has God . . . . Continue Reading »
So I dosed off during Bill Clinton’s speech and woke up in the middle of Piers Morgan. So I got to see the rest of Clinton’s speech. AND: Piers incredibly effusive about the Democratic speeches. It was explained that the platform unpleasantness didn’t occur on “center . . . . Continue Reading »
Lutherans Reject NIV Bible Audrey Barrick, Christian Post Methodists Should Have a Catechism Teddy Ray, United Methodist Reporter What Is a Church “For Our Times?” James V. Schall S.J., Catholic World Report Summarizing Today’s Arguments in the ECtHR Mark L. Movsesian, Center for . . . . Continue Reading »
John Leonard, Reading for My Life : In 1947, a young American and a middle-aged Japanese climbed a tower in Tokyo to look at the bombed temple and the burned-out plain of the Asakusa. The 23-year-old American was the critic Donald Richie. The 48-year-old Japanese, wearing a kimono and a fedora, was . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Lawler is of course right about the 2012 Democratic platform’s provision on abortion. It is about as far on the pro-choice end of the policy spectrum as you can get. It also happens that President Obama is , and always has been, very far on the pro-choice end of the spectrum. His . . . . Continue Reading »
I have pledged to try to keep readers updated on stories we discuss here: Responding to the Cologne trial judge outlawing circumcision, the German State of Berlin had declared circumcision legal if done by a doctor. From the Times of Israel story:One of Germany’s 16 states has declared . . . . Continue Reading »
The Democratic floor fight had a lot of interesting elements. It had Middle Eastern foreign policy relating to an ally (Israel.) It had culture war politics (whether to include a reference to God in the platform.) It had passion on both sides as the Democratic delegates fought to out scream each . . . . Continue Reading »
This is impressive , because it is all about the state of the Democratic Party. The political unpopularity of the platform as it came out of committee has appeared to be a bit of scandal in the news, but I thought that was simply because I read more right-leaning news sources than . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember ” Julia ,” the fictional woman who relied on government to give shape and meaning to the most important milestones in her life (apart, perhaps, from the child she “decided to have”)? That impulse resurfaced in a video from last night’s opening . . . . Continue Reading »
My friend, former NLT blogger, Julie Ponzi, notes ” Tomorrow’s Democrat— Who Could Run in 2016 ” in National Journal . Is it interesting that this is already a topic, a matter of concern already? Hillary’s there, but at the end of the list, because no . . . . Continue Reading »
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