In a time of economic slowdown, social unrest, and high unemployment, what should the government do for the poor and jobless? Should the state guarantee a job for every citizen and give money to the poor, or let the free market move as it will? Can the government provide for the needy while . . . . Continue Reading »
Stanley Hauerwas takes on C. S. Lewis’ defense of just war at the ABC [Australia] Religion & Ethics site: I must write critically of Lewis because here I want to examine his views concerning violence and war. I am a pacifist. Lewis was anything but a pacifist. I want to show . . . . Continue Reading »
Times sure have changed. It wasn’t but a generation ago (OK, a long generation, but still) that the Republican Party was the party of moderately conservative mainline Protestants, while Jews and Catholics were solidly in the Democratic camp. Now the GOP will feature a rabbi giving the . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rogers on business and the way of the cross : Providing a needy person with a job not only eliminates want for that person, it also creates the opportunity to multiply charity through the hands of others. Paul encouraged Christians to do “honest work” with their own hands, so . . . . Continue Reading »
Well enough worryin’ and map-surveyin’ for the moment, let’s at least get the tunes set. Impossible to even hope to survey the Jazz contributions—just stand around in the NOLA airport diggin’ the vintage Pops—so we’ll start instead with 50s-era, or 50s-esque . . . . Continue Reading »
As the promising college freshmen of the class of 2016 attend their first classes in the coming weeks, Christians should be concerned. While these students are quite literate, biblical literacy is plummeting, even among adults. The Gospel Coalition ’s Chris Castaldo warns : As the school year . . . . Continue Reading »
The current issue of Cathedral Age , the magazine of Washington’s National Cathedral, has interviews with Barack Obama and Mitt Romney addressing the subject of faith and public life. The questions are not hard and the answers mostly anodyne. Here’s an example: CA: . . . . Continue Reading »
His office’s statement: Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, has accepted an invitation to deliver the closing prayer at next week’s Democratic National Convention. As was previously announced, he will also be offering the closing prayer at the Republican Convention on . . . . Continue Reading »
Well, our Carl is displaying TRUE GRIT by driving to New Orleans for the APSA meeting in the face of HURRICANE ISAAC. What was the APSA thinking in going to the BIG EASY in one of its uneasy months? As of now, I’m still planning to get there for part of the meeting. But there’s no way . . . . Continue Reading »
No surprise to this Baby Boomer: Marijuana lowers IQ in teenage users. From the Telegraph story:Teenagers who regularly smoke cannabis are putting themselves at risk of permanently damaging their intelligence, according to a landmark study. Medical marijuana, as I have written, . . . . Continue Reading »
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