David Mills

Those of you in or near New York City tonight will want to hear Robert P. George and Ryan T. Anderson (both members of our advisory council) and Sherif Girgis explain what marriage is and analyze the state’s recent decision to approve homosexual “marriages.”  The talk is . . . . Continue Reading »

Having written yesterday in Michele Bachmann, the Anti-Christ, and the Political Theologian  on the need for politicians to be more transparent about their theological beliefs than they tend to be, I was greatly cheered to turn on the radio a few hours later while running errands in the car . . . . Continue Reading »

Here is something that was supposed to go up on June 29th, but, um, didn’t. But the links may interest some of you, even late: Today is the sixtieth anniversary of Joseph Ratzinger’s ordination to the priesthood. Someone has found and posted a movie of parts of the service . You can see . . . . Continue Reading »

Michele Bachmann was once committed to bigotry. Or so claims The Atlantic’s Joshua Green in what seems to be an attempt at the classic “gotcha” article. (Republicans had attacked Barack Obama for his pastor’s rants, and now one of their own has been embarrassed by her religion.) Green doesn’t get her, but she still needs to explain herself, because even the finer points of a candidate’s theology matter, though even religious politicans don’t want to admit it. … Continue Reading »

Those interested in the relations of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, or in the problems and challenges of ecumenism in general, may find of interest Orthodox in Communion with Rome . . . Something to think about  (the comments of DeVille and Tighe are useful as well). It begins with . . . . Continue Reading »

The Smokers was, I think, meant to be a black comedy, but is too accurate to be funny, because you know that hundreds of thousands of young women exactly like the three girls whose story it tells move through their teenage years just as unhappy and confused and desperate, and you cannot laugh at children who are lost in the dark… . Continue Reading »

Our friend and occasional blogger Richard Stith recently explained The right reason for not funding Planned Parenthood . His explanation appears on the weblog of that admirable and useful organization University Faculty for Life . You’ve missed their 2011 conference , held a couple of weeks . . . . Continue Reading »

An academic friend writes an interesting response to my Particular Loves, in this Life and the Next : I think about these things too, and you’ve put all of it very well indeed. There is another column that could be written about the peculiarly private grief involved in losing a beloved pet, a . . . . Continue Reading »

We could see his sister in the next room, standing up straight, alert, obviously happy to meet the stranger who had unexpectedly asked to see her. He stood in the room facing us, shrinking back a bit, with a nervous look on his face, watching us carefully while he peed on the floor. It was a little awkward, with the person who had introduced us leaning against the door and grinning, hoping we’d hit it off, as the puddle of urine grew and eventually flowed across the floor and out between his front paws… . Continue Reading »

Watching the old men walk down the street, not marching, exactly, not at their age, but moving with a certain stiffness and purpose, and the even older men sitting in the convertibles driving past, few of us standing on the sidewalk as the Memorial Day parade goes by think of what they suffered, nor of all the men who might have been marching too had they not died in battle… . Continue Reading »