The “Shakespeare was a Catholic” theory gets a boost from an unlikely source: the Archbishop of Canterbury . Dr Rowan Williams discussed the themes with Simon Russell Beale, the great Shakespearean actor, in one of the most eagerly-anticipated talks of the Hay Festival. Little is known . . . . Continue Reading »
This passage from Marilynne Robinson’s The Death of Adam makes me wonder whether we should have celebrated the 450th anniversary of the Geneva Bible last year in preference to observing the 400th of the King James Version this year:“The Geneva Bible, first published in 1560, was a very . . . . Continue Reading »
What went wrong with the ELCA? Russ Saltzman asks today in his On the Square column . Membership in the denomination that was supposed to unite two-thirds of American Lutheranism is “poised to dip below four million, and the number of congregations below nine thousand,” the denomination . . . . Continue Reading »
Every once in awhile the ACLU defends actual civil liberties and makes me think that maybe they aren’t so bad after all. But it doesn’t take long before they go and do something to remind me why the organization is deserving of contempt : The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing . . . . Continue Reading »
Four children ages 9, 7, 5 and 3 from a homeschooling Catholic family in Notre-Dame-des-Bois in Québec, Canada have been ordered into public school for socialization and non-phonics reading instruction. As Lydia McGrew explains : This case from Canada, which one would like to think . . . . Continue Reading »
Pete continues to be the most realistic of the Republican bloggers. 1. The Republican House is in danger because of the Democrats’ advantage on Medicare. 2. The Democrats are getting away with murder by framing the issue as what we have now—“traditional” Medicare vs. radical . . . . Continue Reading »
Legatus magazine asked me to write a column on the stem cell issue, and so I did. From “Good Ethics Makes for Good Science:”Have you noticed that the stem-cell controversy rarely makes the news these days? There’s a reason: The greatest advances in stem-cell research over the . . . . Continue Reading »
Daniel Gordis wonders whether young rabbis are turning on Israel : If you asked a Jew at any other time in the history of our people whether or not he had enemies, the notion that he should consider the possibility he did not have enemies would have occasioned a blast of the mordant humor that has . . . . Continue Reading »
Joe Carter’s column this week argues that opinion polls make us dumb—-but not simply because they’re often inaccurate. Instead, it’s that opinion polls themselves can seem to instruct the public on how to form opinions : If you are told that the president’s approval . . . . Continue Reading »
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