At Christianity Today we often speak of the summer months as the “church report season,” as many denominations hold their annual meeting or conference during this time of the year. The two words most often used to describe mainline Protestantism in North America are . . . . Continue Reading »
As you all probably know there is a runoff election for the Republican nomination in the Texas Senate race to replace Kay Bailey Hutchison. Well tonight the two candidates—sitting Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Ted Cruz—sat down for a debate moderated by two local Dallas television . . . . Continue Reading »
I thank Greg Forster for responding to my post on Public Discourse about hotels offering in-room, pay-per-view pornographic videos, and I am happy to continue the conversation. I have three main points. First, Forster misstates my position in one important respect. With regard to the open . . . . Continue Reading »
Last week, after carrying the text of an open letter from Robert George and Shaykh Hamza Yusuf calling upon the hotel industry to quit offering porn, Public Discourse ran a response from Robert Miller. Miller is in sympathy with the project, but offers three reasons why he thinks this is . . . . Continue Reading »
R. Jay Magill is tired of the cultural cachet accorded to “sincerity,” warning too much of it can be like “an iron girder in a house of cards,” as he paraphrases W. Somerset Maugham. While the occasional burst of heartfelt self-expression can be refreshing and interesting, . . . . Continue Reading »
In this month’s American Interest , Damar Marusic gives an overview of what he sees as the rise, apogee, and eventual decline of human rights rhetoric in international affairs. The moral overtones of rights language, once deliberately grounded in the natural law tradition and Anglo-Saxon . . . . Continue Reading »
James R. Rogers on defending religious “practices” using the language of rights : Except under a narrowly defined religious exception, the requirement under the Affordable Health Care Act that employers provide insurance that pays for contraception and other reproductive services, . . . . Continue Reading »
The FDA has approved a pill that can help those having sex with HIV + partners avoid being infected. From the SF Chronicle story:The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved the marketing of the first drug shown to curb the transmission of the HIV virus, a development heralded by AIDS . . . . Continue Reading »
As we near the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, George Weigel considers the legacy of Fr. Francis Murphy (alias Xavier Rynne), who covered the Council for The New Yorker , and who (it is argued) gave birth to the “good guys vs. bad guys” hermeneutic. Weigel . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s always good to see the New York Times acknowledge reality: that marriage is better for parents, better for children, and better for society. In a lengthy article based in my hometown of Ann Arbor, Mich., reporter Jason DeParle profiles two mothers — one married, one not — and . . . . Continue Reading »
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