In addition to the upcoming events hosted by St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary and the Society of Catholic Social Scientists , here is yet another fall event that our New York—area readers may wish to attend: John Lennox will deliver a lecture entitled “Does . . . . Continue Reading »
CHECK THIS OUT! It’s suddenly one of the best—and most complicated and informative—blogs around. . . . . Continue Reading »
A heads up: The Society of Catholic Social Scientists will be holding its twentieth annual convention on Friday and Saturday October 26th and 27th, in Uniondale, a community on the western end of Long Island. Among the speakers are our friend and advisory council member Robert P. George, the . . . . Continue Reading »
George Weigel on the campaign between “Burke” and “Hobbes” : You likely think, gentle reader, that the 2012 presidential race is a contest between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. That, of course, is true, insofar as the names on our Nov. 6 ballots go. But the 2012 race for the . . . . Continue Reading »
I know lots of First Things readers are following the shocking case in Germany of a rabbi who is under the cloud of a criminal investigation for practicing circumcision - in effect, for being Jewish. In case you missed it over the long weekend, a local source tells Ed Whelan the case has been . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . yet. But it could, if the recent Supreme Court health-care ruling is exploited a certain way. So says my friend Stanley Carlson-Thies, president of the Institutional Religious Freedom Alliance . He is concerned, as are others , about the long-range consequences of NFIB v. Sebelius , which . . . . Continue Reading »
The Cathedral in the Gulag Archipelago Rorate Caeli Democrats’ Abortion Priority Ashley E. McGuire, The Corner “There’s the Line, for Me, Between Acceptable and Unacceptable Calvinism” Roger E. Olson, Patheos British Christians in the European Court of Human . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Spam has been infecting our comments section. One result is that some real comments have been getting lost. The authorities have been alerted and don’t think we hate you if something you said never appeared in the thread. Keep threading, of course! 2. Circulating among PORCHERS and . . . . Continue Reading »
So I was watching the coverage of the Republican convention and one of the things that the right-leaning hosts on Fox News and the liberal-leaning hosts on the broadcast networks could agree on was that the ethnic and racial diversity of Republican governors and younger Senators was a good sign for . . . . Continue Reading »
As Katie Infantine explained in her post on Bill Nye’s viral video last week, there are multiple types of creationism, distinguished by varying attitudes towards evolution and rival interpretations of Genesis. A recent piece in Christianity Today explores these differing schools through . . . . Continue Reading »
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