David Mills

For those interested in this debate, Lutheran Anthony Sacramone asks Why Calvin and Not Luther? and Darryl, or D. G., Hart responds with Now Lutherans are Tightening My Jaws . . . . . Continue Reading »

The Archbishop of Piraeus, Seraphim, has called for the excommunication of Greek MPs who vote for same-sex partnerships, which the European Court of Human Rights has required the country to implement. The news stories I found were uniformly critical to hostile, and none quoted him at any length, so . . . . Continue Reading »

“New Pew Research Analysis Finds No Clear ‘Pope Francis Effect’ Among U.S. Catholics” reads the headline of a press release from the Pew Research Center’s Religion and Public Life Project. The release explains that though 79% of American Catholics rate the pope . . . . Continue Reading »

Excellent advice for pastors, and for the rest of us: Paul Levy writing on Reformation 21 on When Your World Caves in , writing in response to two pastor friends who’d “fallen morally” and lost their positions and families. For example: Online life is a killer . This isn’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Members of the Society of St. Pius X have distinguished themselves by disrupting a service commemorating Kristallnacht, a service held in the cathedral in Buenos Aires and previously hosted by the man who is now pope. The service they declared a “profanation” because a rabbi was leading . . . . Continue Reading »

Well, winner of the Buckley Award , anyway. Ryan, a former assistant editor and now a member of our Advisory Council, was one of the five people awarded the Young Conservative Coalition’s award for young conservative leaders. The biography included mentions his “influence and . . . . Continue Reading »

The little metal shed at the corner near the office sells candy,  soft drinks, and magazines, with the magazines—mostly People and its peers—on a shelf sticking out from the corner of the shed so that the passersby notice them. I pick up something about popular culture from scanning . . . . Continue Reading »

For New York area readers: the Crossroads Cultural Center is sponsoring the author of The Pope and the CEO , Andreas Widmer, speaking on Doing Business in a possibly dog-eat-dog world. He’ll be speaking at the American Bible Society (just up Broadway from Columbus Circle) two Fridays hence at . . . . Continue Reading »

A kind of   On the Square  classic, our former webmaster Joe Carter’s What a Veteran Knows , published on Veteran’s Day four years ago. (Leon and Amy Kass selected it for the Veterans Day section of their  American Calendar .) It begins: “Thank you for your . . . . Continue Reading »

• One of the country’s flagship left-wing radio stations, where James Baldwin once debated Malcolm X and whose most popular host once grilled President Clinton on his failures to advance progressive causes (we regret not having heard this), New York City’s WBAI offered books by lefty . . . . Continue Reading »