Joe Carter

According to a new Gallup survey , the majority of Democrats remain less likely to attend church weekly and more likely to seldom or never attend church than the national average. . . . . Continue Reading »

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput on defending human dignity Here’s my first point. We remember Bonhoeffer, Solzhenitsyn, and other men and women like them because of their moral witness. But the whole idea of “moral witness” comes from the assumption that good and evil are real, and that . . . . Continue Reading »

U.K.: Government to save Year of our Lord from BBC’s ‘Common Era’ Daily Mail , Chris Hastings In Tebow Debate, a Clash of Faith and Football New York Times , Greg Bishop Myths of the Bin Laden Raid Daily Beast , Richard Miniter How Old Is ‘Too Old’ for Fatherhood? . . . . Continue Reading »

In the November issue of First Things , Abdullah Saeed explains why a close reading of the Qur’an and the Prophet leads to supporting religious tolerance : The words of the Qur’an and hadith contain rich resources for supporting the democratic order. If Muslims are to embrace modernity, . . . . Continue Reading »

Carl Truman on Martin Luther’s forgotten insight : At the heart of this new theology was the notion that God reveals himself under his opposite; or, to express this another way, God achieves his intended purposes by doing the exact opposite of that which humans might expect.  The supreme . . . . Continue Reading »

An English teacher in the Bronx invites a pair of poets to speak at a high school assembly. The poets read a collaboration they wrote which includes “slurs against blacks and gays.” The students were then asked to write words on index cards—“remembrances, colors and references . . . . Continue Reading »

Five myths about the world’s population Washington Post , Nicholas Eberstadt Conservatives and Social Justice Public Discourse , Ryan Anderson The Birthright Challenge Jewish Review of Books , Philip Getz Teen ‘sexting’ common and linked to psychological woes USA Today , Lisa . . . . Continue Reading »

Rod Dreher has some useful advice for how to make sure your child does not grow up to be religious : Make sure they never learn that many brilliant men and women throughout history and even today — scientists, philosophers, artists and others — were and are religious believers. Children . . . . Continue Reading »

As an evangelical who attends a congregation that has replaced hymnals in the pews with PowerPoint on a jumbo-screen, I’m in no position to mock other church’s use of technology. But I thought it’d be fun to throw this out as red meat for my old-school Catholic readers: Monsignor . . . . Continue Reading »

For the past few weeks I’ve been unable to understand the reasoning behind the claims that income inequality is a moral issue that only applies at the group level. Then it came to me like an epiphany—or more accurately, as a Groupon email. According to Wikipedia, the Groupon works as an . . . . Continue Reading »