David Mills

Anyone interested in applying for the First Things  junior fellowship for next year needs to apply by midnight Sunday. See the boxed note on the  home page for details. It is a great opportunity for the young person interested in editing, publishing, religion and public life, engaging the . . . . Continue Reading »

Focusing, as you might guess, on evolution, our friends at the Portsmouth Institute  are offering a conference on “Modern Science / Ancient Faith” from June 22nd to 24th. The speakers include Darwinian philosopher Michael Ruse and Intelligent Design champion William Dembski, . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend sends the letter and Chrism Mass homily  (which Google Chrome will nicely translate for you) from Christoph Cardinal Schönborn dealing with his decision to allow an openly homosexual young man to serve on the parish council to which the people of the parish had elected him. . . . . Continue Reading »

You read Kathleen Kennedy Townsend’s  The Case for Gay Acceptance in the Catholic Church on The Atlantic ‘s website, and scratch your head, and shuffle your feet, and drum your fingers on the table, and shuffle your feet again, trying to figure out what exactly you can say about it . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers who are fans, as I am, of Ronald Knox’s writing will want to know about the Ronald Knox Societ y of North America. It’s a small society now with a useful website (offering a complete list and helpful summaries of his many books, for one thing) and an enjoyable occasional mailing . . . . Continue Reading »

It’s a pleasant sign of aging when people you knew as children grow up and start offering the world their gifts. Here is a chant of Psalm 132 written by a young man whose birth I remember and who I still remember as a little boy (not having seen him since we moved away, though his parents . . . . Continue Reading »

A friend sends The Code of Honor , subtitled “or Rules for the government of principals and seconds in duelling,” published in 1837 by the former governor of South Carolina. It’s a fascinating document of a world long gone, and though the sense of honor is mostly admirable, if . . . . Continue Reading »

A startling reflection on this Feast of the Annunciation by Russell Saltzman:  A meditation on St. Luke 1:26-38 and the Qur’an 19:16-21 . If your eyebrows go up at the title, as mine did, Pastor Saltzman explains: Besides, if Moslems and Christians are going to talk together . . . . Continue Reading »

A new weblog for those who want to keep up with events at the U.N., events with which anyone concerned for the world has, alas, to keep up: Turtle Bay and Beyond , published by the  Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute,  C-Fam . As the “About” note says: Turtle Bay and . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers on the east coast may be interested in the Ciceronian Society’s conference being held March 29th to 31st on the campus of the University of Virginia. And apparently for free, too. The Society, which publishes the new journal Anamnesis and is allied with the Front Porch Republic (from . . . . Continue Reading »