Francis Beckwith

I joined Baylor University’s faculty in July 2003 after a brief stint as a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton. What drew me to Baylor is what has attracted, and continues to attract, hundreds of other prospective faculty members: the ideals and goals of the school’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Good and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and Politics by Robert Benne Eerdmans, 120 pages, $14 For some Americans, as for the Founding Fathers, the separation of church and state means that the government and religious bodies ought not to exert power over the other’s areas of legitimate . . . . Continue Reading »

The Case for Life: Equipping Christians to Engage the Culture by Scott Klusendorf Crossway Books, 256 pages, $15.99 The author has been in the trenches of the pro-life movement for nearly two decades. Not only has he equipped tens of thousands of pro-life citizens in hundreds of seminars and . . . . Continue Reading »

(HT: Ignatius Scoop ) When I came across this general invitation by Amazing Grace Baptist Church (Canton, NC) to participate in its October 31 book-burning, bar-b-que and worship service I was disappointed that none of my own published works were deemed worthy of incineration. I would have thought . . . . Continue Reading »

According to Lisa Schiffrin at NRO : Some people have noted that Barack Obama has not actually achieved peace, anywhere, or diminution of hostilities, or the destruction of even one nuclear weapon, (or even any of his domestic agenda). But, as the Nobel Committee announced, this award is about a . . . . Continue Reading »

The following is from an interview of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. It appeared in U. S. News & World Report . (HT: Ignatius Scoop ) You are also a pro-choice Catholic, and I was reading some stories out of your home state recently where one of the bishops took an . . . . Continue Reading »

He exclaims : “I see lies being told, I see fears being raised, and I see violence even being threatened at these mob sessions.” He is, of course, talking about the many ordinary American citizens who had the temerity to “speak truth to power” at recent Townhall Meetings . . . . Continue Reading »

(Originally posted on What’s Wrong with the World ) This, just up, from Sarah Palin on her Facebook page (with footnotes too!): Yesterday President Obama responded to my statement that Democratic health care proposals would lead to rationed care; that the sick, the elderly, and the disabled . . . . Continue Reading »

From David French at NRO’s Phi Beta Cons : Today’s Inside Higher Ed details the rather disturbing story of an EEOC finding that Belmont Abbey College, a Catholic college in North Carolina, engaged in “gender discrimination” when it refused — consistent with its . . . . Continue Reading »

In an op-ed piece published on August 10 in USA Today , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader Steny Hoyer write that “drowning out opposing views is simply un-American.” In a speech delivered in Virginia on August 7, President Barack Obama said this : “I don’t want . . . . Continue Reading »