So with Occupy Wall Street, and Penn State football child molestation allegations, and the dearth of credible Republican candidates to run against a President who seems to have no care other than winning the next election, and Kim Kardashian apparently marrying whomever for millions of . . . . Continue Reading »
or the soft bigotry of low expectations, 1. One of the themes of this Republican presidential race is the tension between electability/competence on one hand and conservative authenticity on the other. Romney has been winning the competence/electability sweepstakes all year (minus a . . . . Continue Reading »
This pro doctor-prescribed death meme is so old and tired: Pain control can lead to a sooner death, hence it is no different than assisted suicide. And now, in the Canadian attempt to impose assisted suicide by judicial fiat, a pro assisted suicide lawyer cross examined a palliative care . . . . Continue Reading »
The horrifying news out of Penn State has many of us talking about ethics lately, especially those of us who work in academe as I do. One of the terms I’ve heard mentioned the most is “loyalty,” as many commentators have observed that a misplaced sense of loyalty in the . . . . Continue Reading »
If learning is the key to human flourishing, then the age of electronics ought to be our long-awaited golden age of social renewal; for when in history have we had so much knowledge right at our fingertips? You’re not buying that, I can tell. Here I am kicking off a multi-part series on . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , Peter J. Leithart comments on how the Church lost her soundscape: What Islam and the Reformation initiated, American churches have completed, voluntarily. Beginning with the charismatic revival and the Jesus movement, the most theologically conservative . . . . Continue Reading »
Let me praise Newt Gingrich.When nobody else could imagine a Republican House majority, New Gingrich saw it and made it so. If you are a backbench legislator doomed to decades in the minority, Gingrich is just the bomb thrower and innovator you need.If a student finds history boring, Professor . . . . Continue Reading »
Writing about the recent personhood amendment in Mississippi, Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, says that when faced with the central logic of the pro-life movement many people “who considered themselves pro-life balked, blinked, and . . . . Continue Reading »
U.S. Efforts Make Progress Against Child Sex Abuse Washington Times , David Crary Church Music Wars Battle For Souls With Song USA Today , Cathy Lynn Grossman For Bernard of Clairvaux’s Bible Reading Program to Make Sense of the World Why I Am Catholic, Frank Weathers Report: Teen Birth Rate . . . . Continue Reading »
Although I have a deep-rooted aversion to utopian ideologies (Seriously dudes, stop trying to immanentize the eschaton!), I recognize that all utopianists are not equally annoying. Personally, I prefer the type of utopianist who has read so much fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien or sci-fi by Verner Vinge . . . . Continue Reading »
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