In 1952 Miklós Rózsa, one of Hollywood’s great film composers, borrowed the Genevan Psalter’s tune for Psalms 36 and 68 in scoring Plymouth Adventure, the story of the Pilgrims’ migration to North America in 1620.Here is the text sung by the chorus:Confess Jehovah . . . . Continue Reading »
Loyalty’s Perverted Cousin, Conspiracy Evangel , Gene Fant Can America Overcome Race? Public Discourse , William Doino Jr. Catholic Church To Buy Famed Crystal Cathedral NPR , Barbara Bradley Hagerty Lincoln and the Mormons New York Times , Ted Widmer U.S. Lacks Notable Christian Leaders Barna . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . is introduced by Marc Guerra and ME. This issue of THE NEW ATLANTIS is devoted to the great presentations at our second STUCK WITH VIRTUE conference at beautiful and huge Berry College . . . . Continue Reading »
In an interview with Christianity Today , Wheaton College professor Christine Gardner explains the differences in rhetorical approaches between evangelical abstinence organizations in America and abstinence campaigns in sub-Saharan Africa: You looked at how Africans view abstinence, saying they . . . . Continue Reading »
When I first moved to San Francisco, I volunteered with Project Open Hand to deliver dinners to terminal AIDS patients. It was—and is—a wonderful organization that harnessed the energy of San Francisco’s liberal activist community and mixed it with practical planning to make . . . . Continue Reading »
I know something about THAT, at least. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Songbook inevitably has to analyze modernity, precisely because it is interested more in what rock reveals about our overall sociological and spiritual situation than it is in rock itself. So what follows are two organizing posts concerning this. Here, I’ll quickly lay out my . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember Ron Reagan’s nonsense speech about embryonic stem cell research (actually human cloning research) at the 2004 Democratic Convention? Media swooned at the garbage and the hype (e.g., Parkinson’s cures around 2014, “self repair kits” stored in hospitals). . . . . Continue Reading »
First off, I want to apologize for being missing in action. All my time has been sucked up by THE PUBLIC POLICY DIMENISON OF BEING STUCK WITH VIRTUE CONFERENCE, which was a huge success. More on that soon. The dominant tendency of Republicans is now called, in several places, ABR. The likely voters . . . . Continue Reading »
Shiva Naipaul is not as well known as his Nobel-laureate brother, but a devoted minority considers him the better writer, and I do not think there can be much question that he is the only Naipaul with a sense of humor visible to the human eye. He is also the more tragic of the two. Shiva died of a . . . . Continue Reading »
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