U.K.: Government to save Year of our Lord from BBC’s ‘Common Era’ Daily Mail , Chris Hastings In Tebow Debate, a Clash of Faith and Football New York Times , Greg Bishop Myths of the Bin Laden Raid Daily Beast , Richard Miniter How Old Is ‘Too Old’ for Fatherhood? . . . . Continue Reading »
In the November issue of First Things , Abdullah Saeed explains why a close reading of the Qur’an and the Prophet leads to supporting religious tolerance : The words of the Qur’an and hadith contain rich resources for supporting the democratic order. If Muslims are to embrace modernity, . . . . Continue Reading »
As Muslims gather to undertake the hajj pilgrimage, the city of Mecca itself is experiencing a major transformation which seems to mirror larger upheavals in the Islamic world. A massive hotel complex featuring the world’s second tallest building has opened literally across the . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl Truman on Martin Luther’s forgotten insight : At the heart of this new theology was the notion that God reveals himself under his opposite; or, to express this another way, God achieves his intended purposes by doing the exact opposite of that which humans might expect. The supreme . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been warning about this for years: Here’s the game that is afoot. Some among the same sector that once assured a nervous culture that vital organs are only procured from the truly dead, are now saying it was a ruse all along. Understand, this isn’t an ethical call . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , R.R. Reno considers the future of the European Union: From its beginnings in the early 1950s as a common market of coal and steel, post-war efforts to unify Europe have been based on the presumption that interlocking economic interests would lead to a new and . . . . Continue Reading »
An English teacher in the Bronx invites a pair of poets to speak at a high school assembly. The poets read a collaboration they wrote which includes “slurs against blacks and gays.” The students were then asked to write words on index cards—“remembrances, colors and references . . . . Continue Reading »
Five myths about the world’s population Washington Post , Nicholas Eberstadt Conservatives and Social Justice Public Discourse , Ryan Anderson The Birthright Challenge Jewish Review of Books , Philip Getz Teen ‘sexting’ common and linked to psychological woes USA Today , Lisa . . . . Continue Reading »
Rod Dreher has some useful advice for how to make sure your child does not grow up to be religious : Make sure they never learn that many brilliant men and women throughout history and even today — scientists, philosophers, artists and others — were and are religious believers. Children . . . . Continue Reading »
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