“Imprecatory prayers,” which ask God to harm another person, have been affirmed as acceptable speech under the First Amendment, according to a story from Religion News Service : Is it okay to ask God to do harm to another person? The theology of such “imprecatory prayer” . . . . Continue Reading »
I Am Thomas James M. Kushiner, Touchstone Mitt’s Women Problem Katrina Trinko, National Review Don’t Know Much About Theology . . . Walter Russell Mead, Via Media The Disconnect: Why Are So Many Americans Living Alone? Nathan Heller, The New Yorker Priests in . . . . Continue Reading »
Focusing, as you might guess, on evolution, our friends at the Portsmouth Institute are offering a conference on “Modern Science / Ancient Faith” from June 22nd to 24th. The speakers include Darwinian philosopher Michael Ruse and Intelligent Design champion William Dembski, . . . . Continue Reading »
Matthew Milliner argues on his blog that academia is now embracing religion as a valid hermeneutic—even as a field of study. It’s an argument he’s articulated previously , but one worth tracking closely. Quite forthrightly, he asserts that: If you don’t think . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank Bruni, the New York Times ’ first openly homosexual columnist, has written a surprising piece entitled “ The Bleaker Sex ,” in which he laments the emotional and physical damages many women experience as a result of embracing the “awkward emotional fit” of so-called . . . . Continue Reading »
Cardinal Keith O’Brien of Scotland has called on his flock to challenge rising secularism by wearing crosses and other religious symbols over their clothing. My first reaction to this news was a pleasant surprise. As someone who paid little attention to the British scene, I knew . . . . Continue Reading »
Steven M. Perry on how charity begins with God, not government : As government and other political institutions continue to fail us, people of faith remain the only consistent safety net for those in need. Take, for example, the State of Illinois, which recently passed the Religious Freedom . . . . Continue Reading »
This has not made nearly enough news. A crucial chemotherapy drug is now in very short supply. Johnson and Johnson, the company that owns the drug, said way back in June, that the shortage was caused by equipment problems at the third party manufacturer. Nearly a year . . . . Continue Reading »
Foreign Affairs recently published a piece by Andrew Preston exploring what might be called the paradox of religion in American foreign policy. Preston is critical of both the Obama and Bush administration’s approaches to this dilemma although not, perhaps, for the usual reasons. Rather than . . . . Continue Reading »
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