A new study reveals that, contrary to the claims of the New Atheist crowd, the more educated tend to be more not less religious: After analyzing data from a large national survey, University of Nebraska-Lincoln sociologist Philip Schwadel found that people actually tend to become more religious - . . . . Continue Reading »
One’s own self is hard to get around. I have pictures of me standing in school pictures of the whole first or second grade class. It was a photograph of the whole lot of us kids, and when the print was made my eyes would look at that group and greedily find myself first. How did I look? Was I . . . . Continue Reading »
[Editor’s note: The following is a guest by Brian Auten, a member of a Sovereign Grace Ministries affliliated church in Fairfax, Virginia.]Yesterday, Tim Challies offered some thoughts about what I would argue—and he himself admitted—is a narrowly defined aspect of Sovereign Grace . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter, here’s the link for the The New Republic piece on Perry’s “convenient conversion to radical evangelicalism.” What the conversion amounts to, outside of political moves, is this: “ . . . growing up Methodist, [Perry] belonged to the mainline tradition that counts . . . . Continue Reading »
Founder of the World Youth Alliance and friend of First Things Anna Halpine is chronicling events in Madrid in a “World Youth Day Diary” for Standpoint that you can find on that magazine’s weblog . In her first entry , Halpine suggests that the event is an outgrowth of the . . . . Continue Reading »
Back in June I outlined how to destroy a culture in 5 easy steps : Step #1: From Unthinkable to Radical — The first step is the easiest—provided the issue can become a fetish or the topic of an academic symposium. Since both the professoriate and the perverts have a fascination with the . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column, Joe Carter discusses what conservatives should mean when talking about limited government : There’s an old Cold War-era joke about an ex-Communist who gets into an argument with a young man newly infatuated with Marxism. After the youth repeatedly attempts . . . . Continue Reading »
Why, when I realize that journalists misrepresent topics that I know about, do I trust them to accurately cover issues that I don’t know much about? I’ve thought about that question for years but didn’t realize until yesterday that the late novelist Michael Crichton coined a . . . . Continue Reading »
Sex Ed Mandates and Children’s Innocence Public Discourse , Greg Pfundstein Atheists to put on event at Fort Bragg Washington Times , Tom Breen Want to Live Longer? Turn Off Your TV Time , Alice Park This Isn’t Meddling — It’s Murder The Christian Post , Albert Mohler The . . . . Continue Reading »
So here’s the right link to my post on the movie. I actually think the movie adds stuff to our “narrative” about the South—both good and bad—that even Walker Percy misses. And on Ryan: I’m more impressed by the case against him Pete lays out than the case for . . . . Continue Reading »
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