What is the literal sense? In the current issue of the IJST , R. R. Reno suggests that it involves attending to the text: “We want to bring out minds and hearts into obedience to God’s Word rather than to float in a spiritual world of our imaginings . . . . If we are to believe what the . . . . Continue Reading »
For those of you who have not purchased or at least ordered your copy of The Glory of Kings: A Festschrift for James B. Jordan (and shame, shame if you haven’t), the folks at First Things have put up a teaser, R. R. Reno’s wonderful Foreword to the book. It’s available here: . . . . Continue Reading »
In Book 10 of the Nicomachean Ethics , Aristotle ponders the nature of happiness, concluding from philosophical arguments that happiness consists in contemplation. He adds a theological argument: “We assume the gods to be above all other beings blessed and happy; but what sort of actions must . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Weekly Standard blog, Lee Smith notes that this week’s riot in Cairo “was preceded by a smaller demonstration last week when Copts protested an attack on a church in Edfu, almost 500 miles south of the Egyptian capital, and demanded that the Muslim gangs responsible for the . . . . Continue Reading »
On the Huffington Post , Christian Sahner provides some background for the current hostility against Christians in the Middle East. He notes, for instance that “Western nations have long showered attention upon Arab Christian communities.” As a result of their role in diplomatic . . . . Continue Reading »
Americans, Hauerwas says, “presume that they have exercised their freedom when the get to choose between a Sony or Pansonic television.” That’s a cleverly subversive thing to say, but things are not quite as easy as Hauerwas makes them. Consumers may, for all I know, often be this . . . . Continue Reading »
Stanley Hauerwas ( War and the American Difference: Theological Reflections on Violence and National Identity ) offers a neat definition for American freedom: It is the modern “attempt to produce a people who believe that they should have no story except the story that they chose when they . . . . Continue Reading »
In her 1999 book, The War Against Population: The Economics and Ideology of World Population Control , Jacqueline Kasun quoted a statement made by USAID Office of Population director Reimert Ravenholt in a 1977 St. Louis Post-Dispatch interview. Ravenholt said that we should aim for sterilization . . . . Continue Reading »
In September of this year, Nick Turse reported on Salon.com that the Obama administration has greatly increased the US military presence in the 97 or so countries that make up what the Bush administration called the “ark of instability.” To be specific: “The United States is now . . . . Continue Reading »
On September 11 this year, Walter Russell Mead reported on the plight of Christians on his blog at the National Interest web site. Mead bemoand the fact that one of the consequences of the US invasion of Iraq has been the rapid decline of non-Muslim residents: “Comprising at least 5% of . . . . Continue Reading »
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