Peter J. Leithart on messages at the movies : Like many Christian filmmakers, the Erwins can’t resist “preaching” moments. Sure, non-Christian films can be plenty preachy, but preachiness is a disease to which evangelical filmmakers are especially susceptible. The nurse’s scene . . . . Continue Reading »
Jennifer Lahl—I call her, “She Who Walks Through Walls”—founded the Center for Bioethics and Culture in 2000, and had the wisdom to bring me on as a paid consultant (he said modestly). Over the last 12 years, the CBC has really been doing very energetic and . . . . Continue Reading »
Ed Kilgore, writing for the New Republic , believes that Robert Jeffress’ recent endorsement of Romney ought to serve as a warning to Democrats who expect that “evangelical distaste for Mormonism will cost Mitt Romney a significant number of votes.” He is probably right. In any case, . . . . Continue Reading »
So, a pal and I go to see The Three Stooges last night: Woob! Woob! Woob! Woob! I just wanted to forget the world and revisit my long lost boyhood when my friends and I would roar at the Stooges on TV after school.The movie was almost perfect. It really captured the spirit . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert Bellah’s recent tome Religion in Human Evolution attempts to revive the grand narrative approach to history (which has been in a bit of a rough patch since, say, 1989) but it does so more-or-less in the context of a scientific theory of evolution, and it places religion . . . . Continue Reading »
French Elections: Far Left and Far Right Gavin Hewitt, BBC A Question for Time Magazine Kathryn Jean Lopez, Patheos Has Religious Freedom Lost Its Cool? Mikhail Bell, Institute on Religion & Democracy Evangelicals’ Sea Change on Conversion Gordon T. Smith, . . . . Continue Reading »
Vatican watcher Rocco Palmo flags the Wednesday release of a four-year-long study of women religious. Even the most casual observer knows that many female orders are, well, in disorder. A particular virulent version of the post-Vatican II flu ran through various orders of nuns, and . . . . Continue Reading »
Three writers at The Gospel Coalition ( Ray Van Neste , Eric Bancroft , and Kenneth J. Stewart ) debate the issue of communion frequency in Protestant churches. From Van Neste’s essay: . . . in our man-centered age where so many services are shamefully devoid of any meaningful reference . . . . Continue Reading »
Much ink has been spilled (if that’s still an intelligible expression in this digital age) about the likely evangelical resistance to voting for Mitt Romney. But, to my mind, the recent Pew poll paints a different picture. Here’s what we learn: Protestants favor Romney . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, the 27th of Nissan in the Jewish calendar, marks the State of Israel’s official Holocaust Remembrance Day. It’s been seven decades now, but the sheer magnitude of the tragedy still resonates powerfully for Jews both in Israel and across the globe. But the focus is not only on the . . . . Continue Reading »
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