Russell Moore has a nice post about how, although there’s generally a moral mandate upon Christians to adopt, there are plenty of people who ought not to be the ones to fulfill that mandate [ht: Justin Taylor]. In particular, certain kinds of issues tend to come up with adoptions . . . . Continue Reading »
This post isn’t about the propriety of the death penalty so much as it is about the dangers and profound crassness of utilitarian philosophy. Peter Singer has stated that if he was convinced of a utilitarian benefit to society from the death penalty, he would support . . . . Continue Reading »
Our friend Peter Lawler offers a brief appreciation of Pierre Manent here . It’s hard to tell where Lawler ends and Manent begins, but here’s a snippet: For Manent, who is among one of the most endangered of species, a French Catholic intellectual, the modern nation, at its best, . . . . Continue Reading »
There has been a controversial meme circulating for several years which holds that the abortion right resulted unintentionally in a reduction in crime. The idea, I think, is that the fetuses who became medical waste would, but for being aborted, have become children raised in unstable homes . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s hard not (at least) to be disappointed with Barack Obama or to regard him as hypocritical. Consider, for example this New York Times article about the President’s campaign bundlers—technically, they’re not lobbyists, but you almost have to parse words in a . . . . Continue Reading »
In Virtual Deity , our friend and writer Maureen Mullarkey reflects on the new memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr. “Without a doubt, King is owed a memorial in the company of statesmen,” she writes. “But whether he—and we—deserve this particular one is less clear.” . . . . Continue Reading »
On October 19, a high-ranking official in the Southern Baptist Convention named resurgent Calvinism as the “ top challenge ” facing the congregation for the foreseeable future—quite a statement, especially when considering what an outside observer might imagine to be the usual . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, Matthew Hennessey discusses liturgy and the diminution of American Catholicism : The revolutionary developments of the late 1960s—the ones my friend remembers so affectionately—weren’t, in the end, enough to keep him and his cohort in communion . . . . Continue Reading »
The euthanasia agenda is not—and never has been—limited to the “terminally ill for whom nothing else can be done to alleviate suffering.” Some still pretend that is so as a political expedient, but many are becoming increasingly forthcoming about the radical scope of . . . . Continue Reading »
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