In today’s On the Square feature, Leroy Huizenga reveals the real St. Hildegard of Bingen : Many have made Hildegard in their own image. She became a mystic to later medievals who saw her through the lens of her popular disciple Elisabeth of Schönau, although she was more properly a . . . . Continue Reading »
A leading conservative woman sent me this email in response to my Perry’c probably won’t win thing: I agree that it will be a close election, no matter what. I agree that Obama is still well liked, even while people are beginning to think, “Ya know, he’s just not good at . . . . Continue Reading »
The pending nationalization of health care will come at a steep price beyond sclerotic bureaucratization, increased costs, and the stifling of innovation. We will now begin to lose personal freedom in the name of cutting health care costs.Latest example: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor, is . . . . Continue Reading »
“Peace & Reconciliation: Spiritual Reflections on a Decade After 9/11” sounds like a fairly generic religious colloquium on the past decade. But this conference, run by pacifist organization Pax Christi, went well beyond calls to “reflect,” as Barton Gingerich notes in his . . . . Continue Reading »
The idea of the “the consensus” was always an anti science meme. The notion that the only “so-called” scientists who had substantial doubts about the global warming “crisis” were on the evil oil company payrolls, was always just a way to try to stifle . . . . Continue Reading »
Christ, the Church, and Pat Robertson Moore to the Point , Russell D. Moore President continues to prop up Planned Parenthood against states’ wishes Hot Air , Tina Korbe Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Resigns Over Global Warming FoxNews.com White House To Aid Islamic States Defy Free Speech . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, we were treated to the news Peter links to below, on Pat Robertson’s betrayal of basic Christian teaching on marriage in the face of Alzheimer’s. And over at the good ship Ricochet, there was a chilling report on the state of infanticide law in Canada (If I recall correctly, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pew Research Center has put together a new Political Typology which divides the public into eight politically engaged groups, along with a ninth group of less engaged “Bystanders.” According to their report, the assignment of individuals to one of the eight core typology groups is . . . . Continue Reading »
1. The USA TODAY today’s front page article, based on its poll, is all about Republicans being evenly divided on Perry. Those who believe that Social Security is unconstitutional and all that are for him, while those who don’t aren’t. And there’s plenty of worry that seeming . . . . Continue Reading »
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