Joe Carter

As the parent of a college-age teen, I’ve encountered a lot of proud parents. I’ve encountered even more delusional ones. For example, in making an excuse for their child’s lack of academic ability I often hear some  variation of, “It’s not like he’s a dumb . . . . Continue Reading »

Dennis Prager blunts his point by putting too much emphasis on the left/right divide, but I think he raises an important question in asking why class hatred is considered morally superior to hatred based on race: Because the Holocaust was unique in its industrialization of death and in its . . . . Continue Reading »

Since First Things in nearing the end of our Fall fundraising campaign, and since we still have a long way to go before we reach our goal of 500 readers as web donors, I thought I’d make an appeal to a specific group of readers: Those who have never donated to a web magazine before. I suspect . . . . Continue Reading »

Matthew Yglesias makes a peculiar insinuation : Not to get too sucked into the weeds of nonsense, but with this effort to gin up the idea that Occupy Wall Street is somehow shot-through with anti-semitism, and American media industry that’s full of Jewish people is once again somehow losing . . . . Continue Reading »

Timothy George and Charles Colson on the Big Love strategy : Big Love , HBO’s series about the “polygamists next door” in Sandy, Utah, ended its five-year run last March, but polygamy is still going strong on American television. TLC’s reality series Sister Wives , which . . . . Continue Reading »

EU court bars stem cell patents when embryos destroyed, Christians hail ruling Reuters How I Wish the Homosexuality Debate Would Go Kingdom People , Trevin Wax Questions to ask your local anti-Stratfordian more than 95 theses , Alan Jacobs Crimes against Culture or Business as Usual? H-Net Reviews . . . . Continue Reading »

Evangelicals who take an interest in the life of the mind inevitably encounter two types of fundamentalists. Although the two types are similar, they are easy to distinguish. Both types believe that their views of the scripture, creation, and/or history are the only legitimate interpretations and . . . . Continue Reading »

The liberal critics of George W. Bush were right about one thing: The President did help usher in a theocracy. The reason the progressives didn’t seem to notice”or seem to care”was that the theocracy wasn’t being lead by Dominionists in Idaho but rather by Islamicists in Kabul. It was, in other words, a genuine theocracy, the kind that never seems to bother them. But in 2004 those of us who prize freedom of religion had reason to be concerned… . Continue Reading »

Deirdre Sullivan on the surprising lesson she learned from following her father peculiar advice : I believe in always going to the funeral. My father taught me that. The first time he said it directly to me, I was 16 and trying to get out of going to calling hours for Miss Emerson, my old fifth . . . . Continue Reading »

Theologian N. T. Wright on Deism, Darwin, and how Epicureanism influenced evolutionary theory: . . . . Continue Reading »