Anna Sutherland

In order to better facilitate discussion on this blog, we’ve recently updated our commenting policies to include a limit on the length of comments. Comments can run to no longer than approximately three hundred words (1900 characters, including spaces). Multiple-part comments are not allowed; . . . . Continue Reading »

Dallas Theological Seminary last month published an interview with the eminent Evangelical Anglican theologian Alister McGrath on subjects from atheism and apologetics to classical liberalism and Ludwig Feuerbach. Here’s what he had to say about American apologetics: A lot of American . . . . Continue Reading »

Daniel Silliman ponders  on his blog whether charity could entirely replace the welfare state, as some conservatives desire: Could private charities move beyond assistance, beyond helping at the points where the system of government assistance is breaking down, replacing government with . . . . Continue Reading »

Sometime in the last few years, I realized that my ignorance of botany was interfering with my enjoyment of literature. This truth was brought home to me once more last night as I read Sigrid Undset’s novel Ida Elisabeth . The title character, Undset tells us, “would have liked more . . . . Continue Reading »

The Church hates science. The Church hates women. The Church hates gay people. Many Catholics are sick of hearing this refrain but unsure of how to answer it, especially in language that’s appealing to non-Christians. And a quick search for resources is more likely to yield Internet polemics, . . . . Continue Reading »

Graduate students may be interested in attending a two-day conference on moral philosophy in Pamplona, Spain, this March: The Institute for Culture and Society of the University of Navarra and the Social Trends Institute have scheduled a two-day Seminar on Natural Law and Public Reason for graduate . . . . Continue Reading »

Detroit’s Archbishop Allen Vigneron recently spoke about the role of Catholic schools in the Church and the new evangelization—-an issue particularly urgent as many Catholic schools struggle to remain open and affordable. Archbishop Vigneron argues that schools are “an organic . . . . Continue Reading »

Today the Catholic Church marks the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Matthew’s Gospel tells us that Herod, after realizing that the magi had deceived him, was “furious” and “ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and its vicinity two years old and under.” . . . . Continue Reading »

The FamilyScholars blog is hosting a symposium on marriage this week to mark the release of “The President’s Marriage Agenda for the Forgotten Sixty Percent” ( PDF here ), a new report from the National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values. The “sixty . . . . Continue Reading »

Continuing the debate over fertility and decadence that Matthew Schmitz has mentioned  on this blog, Samuel Goldman suggests  that underlying the low birth rates of wealthy nations is not just selfishness but a very high estimation of the requirements of parenting. The occasion for his . . . . Continue Reading »