David Mills

In today’s “On the Square,” article, No Mere Christianity , I discuss the defects of Lewis’s famous idea and its most famous expression as a way of understanding Christian unity. It is, I think, implicitly imperialistic. . . . . Continue Reading »

A few days ago I posted on “First Thoughts” an item contrasting an article from the (Southern) Baptist Press claiming that only two of the 33 miners trapped underground in Chile were Christians, with one by an English Catholic who stressed the miners’ Catholicism and said he had “no doubt at all that there weren’t that many Adventists or Evangelicals down there.” … Continue Reading »

The use of what he calls “bang words” (obscenities included for effect), writes Barton Swaim, is “rhetorical cheating. It’s the forensic equivalent of pulling out a knife to win an argument.” In Oh, the Profanity! , he notes that in a Youtube video of the movies’ . . . . Continue Reading »

A parable produced by Beyond Relevance , which calls itself “an innovative blog for a culturally strategic church: What if Starbucks Marketed Like a Church? I was amused, anyway. The writer of Beyond Relevance works in a different ecclesial world than I do, and thinks the church and her life . . . . Continue Reading »

E. Christian Brugger reports on the dark side of the infertility industry . The woman whose body is over-stimulated to produce eggs “might suffer excruciating abdominal pain, blood clots, infections, kidney failure, loss of her ovaries, shock, and, in rare cases, death.” And “if . . . . Continue Reading »

In The Nobel Prize That Wasn’t , today’s second “On the Square” feature, our managing editor Mary Rose Somarriba explains why “why this year’s Nobel Prize for the discovery of IVF represents a failure.” Aimed at creating fertilized embryos, IVF destroys many . . . . Continue Reading »

Walker Percy: A Documentary Film will be playing at the New Orleans Film Festival on October 17th and 20th. (The site includes a short clip from the movie.) . . . . Continue Reading »

“David, your writing is always inspirational,” begins the first comment on David Hart’s The Desirist’s Unsatisfiable Desires , today’s first “On the Square” article,. The commenter is responding, I think, to Dr. Hart’s insights into the moral life, . . . . Continue Reading »

Mental Floss offers Ten of the Best Parents in Fiction and What Ten Classic Books Were Almost Called . The number one parent is Atticus Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird , and Bram Stoker considered The Dead Un-Dead for the book eventually published as  Dracula . Joan Frawley Desmond . . . . Continue Reading »

Readers of David Goldman’s Israeli Christians may be interested in this report on the synod for bishops in the Middle East, quoting Rabbi David Rosen, an adviser to the Chief Rabbinate of Israel, who spoke to the bishops yesterday: Rabbi tells synod that Christians in Israel enjoy freedom, . . . . Continue Reading »