David Mills

Though it was launched just eleven days ago, no one, judging from a google search of the title, is still talking about A Call for Intergenerational Justice, a new statement by the Evangelical Left, who are suddenly and for the first time worried about governmental debt. The statement, subtitled “A Christian Response for the American Debt Crisis,” has just 397 signatures as I write, and has added just two in the twelve hours since I first checked… . Continue Reading »

Our friend and writer Mary Eberstadt sends a link to a short  National Review Online symposium on Lenten reading . We’ll borrow the idea and ask you to supply the one book (one) you’d recommend for Lenten reading this Lent. Not books for general improvement or edification, but . . . . Continue Reading »

I just returned from the noon Mass at a nearby church, where the priest imposed the ashes with the traditional opening “Remember, O man.” Which cheered me, which may not be quite the feeling one wants on Ash Wednesday. It reminded me of something I wrote a few years ago for an . . . . Continue Reading »

The subject of Monday’s  The Catholic Brand, the Real Gospel , the minister recently let go by a Catholic college after they discovered, they said, that he was both openly homosexual and a minister in a pseudo-Catholic group called the Old Catholic Apostolic Church of America, has, . . . . Continue Reading »

Our friend Maureen Mullarkey offers a review of an exhibit titled “Objects of Devotion and Desire: Medieval Relic to Contemporary Art” that seems, as the cartoon strip puts it “unclear on the concept.” (The exhibit, I mean, not Maureen’s review). For example: . . . . Continue Reading »

He was a dignified man suffering all the embarrassing ways a hospice deals with the body’s failure as cancer begins shutting down the organs. Dying in a hospice, you lose all rights to modesty as you lose control of your body. Few men could have found the indignities of those last few weeks of . . . . Continue Reading »

No one would criticize the Yves St. Laurent company for dismissing a part-time salesman who was also managing a store selling inferior clothes called Yves St. Laurence, or the Tommy Hilfiger company for letting go a junior executive who also ran a knock-off clothing company named after a Tommy Hilfinger. Everyone would understand their desire to protect their name and brand… . Continue Reading »

Today is the eighteenth anniversary of the death of the great Anglican theologian — believed by many to have been the greatest Anglican theologian of the last century — Eric Mascall. In Eric Lionel Mascall as Anglican Patrimony , my friend William Tighe offers a tribute to his friend, . . . . Continue Reading »

“I gave him exactly a year, and if I decide it’s not working I’ll leave,” said the young woman walking behind me, naming the day she would leave and indicating that she would just walk out without explaining. Talking loudly enough to be heard on a crowded sidewalk, speaking in a brisk hard voice, she listed her demands, which included feeling completely satisfied with the arrangement and a high degree of personal autonomy to pursue her own goals… . Continue Reading »

It is hard not to smile nowadays when someone, inevitably a religious liberal, declares some proposal “prophetic.” It’s so sixties. In today’s “On the Square” article, Too Often Prophetic , I suggest why they shouldn’t use it nearly so much, and why . . . . Continue Reading »