David Mills

Today in “On the Square,” R. R. Reno reflects on an artist whose work expresses an Augustinian understanding of man who is not at home in the world. Enrique Martinez Celaya, whose paintings are being shown at both the Museum of Biblical Art and the (Episcopal) Cathedral of St. John the . . . . Continue Reading »

An illustration of the differences that still divide serious Christians, from contrasting stories on the 33 Chilean miners trapped so long underground. From the (Southern) Baptist Press : When the mine collapsed, three of the miners — including Henríquez — were Christians. Since . . . . Continue Reading »

Eastern Catholic patriarchs make demands of the pope , during the second day of the synod for the Middle Eastern bishops, and one also proposes “a bank of available priests” from other countries who would serve for a short period in the Middle East. In 1910, six Americans tried to make . . . . Continue Reading »

Along the same lines as the typo mentioned in yesterday’s Erratum of the Week , at a discussion last night I heard someone ask a question about the pope speaking “ex catheter.” He later referred to someone as a “teetoddler.” Update: Not an error, exactly, but close. . . . . Continue Reading »

In Evangelicalism’s Fads and Figures , today’s “On the Square,” Joe Carter lists ten Evangelical “fixtures” (as opposed to fads) he finds harm not only Evangelicalism but evangelism. Starting with making converts. . . . . Continue Reading »

Ten Renaissance masterpieces available online , in amazing detail. Heather Macdonald reports on S an Francisco’s attempt to reclaim the public sidewalks from aggressive beggars, the current laws being idiotic. Matthew Archbold examines the anti-baby science of those who caught between the . . . . Continue Reading »

A “wages of sin” or “be sure your sins will find you out” kind of story: our senior editor David Goldman writes in his lastest “Spengler” column for the Asia Times that much of the Islamic Republic [of Iran] runs on pirated software . . . .  Most Iranian . . . . Continue Reading »

Today in “On the Square,” Elizabeth Scalia examines The Tolerance Disconnect , beginning with the high rate of abortion for children with Down Syndrome and the bullying of teenagers by their peers, and finds the rhetoric of tolerance inadequate. [T]his generation of teenagers has been . . . . Continue Reading »

“It is also not surprising that the same viruses that infect the culture of narcissism infect the culture of total work,” writes Anthony Esolen in Woman of Leisure , combining insights from Christopher Lasch and Josef Pieper. . . . .And yet it is taken for granted, even by . . . . Continue Reading »

Ambitious parents of very young children are, according to   New York Times story, depriving their children of the pleasure of picture books in favor of more challenging “chapter books,” in an attempt to help them succeed in school. As Maureen Mullarkey writes in Bye Bye Picture . . . . Continue Reading »