Joe Carter

A collection of odd economic indicators from the BBC and the L.A. Times :The crane index. How many cranes are visible from a given point. Really a measure of optimism about the prospects for commercial property. • The number of people signing up to dating agencies offering extra-marital . . . . Continue Reading »

Ivan Kenneally, an assistant professor political science at the Rochester Institute of Technology and blogger at Postmodern Conservative , reviews Remi Brague’s The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea for Modern Age : In The Law of God, Brague never specifically mentions American . . . . Continue Reading »

Remember when everyone was saying that the Cash for Clunkers program was merely siphoning off demand from future months? Turns out that’s exactly what’s happening : Edmunds.com reports that “September’s light-vehicle sales rate will fall to 8.8 million units . . . the lowest . . . . Continue Reading »

Theologian Russell Moore explains why the John Edwards scandal matters : It matters because it highlights, first of all, a key cause of the poverty Sen. Edwards once commendably made a central aspect of his presidential campaign. Numberless children wake up in grinding poverty because their fathers . . . . Continue Reading »

At the most recent World Congress of Families in Amsterdam, family scholar Pat Fagan argued that the culture of the traditional family is now in intense competition with a very different culture : The defining difference between the two is the sexual ideal embraced. The traditional family of . . . . Continue Reading »

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“Rhetoric detached from morality harms people and societies,” says Biola University professor John Mark Reynolds. As Reynolds notes, political rhetoric has become more hateful and extreme —leading to behaviors that Christians should avoid: “Jesus called us to love our enemies . . . . Continue Reading »

Irving Kristol , writer, editor, and social philosopher, has died in Washington at the age of eighty-nine. Dubbed the “godfather of neoconservatism”, Kristol played an influential role in the intellectual and political culture of American conservatism for over forty years. Our prayers . . . . Continue Reading »

A Catholic publisher in England has come out with a Prayer Book for Spouses that includes a “Prayer Before Making Love”, which reads: Father, send your Holy Spirit into our hearts. Place within us love that truly gives, tenderness that truly unites, self-offering that tells the truth and . . . . Continue Reading »

Those of us who believe that pro-life issues should be given priority of place in deciding how to vote are often chastised for downplaying valid concerns about the environment, foreign policy, healthcare, and other matters of morality and justice. But as David Koyzis persuasively argues, there is . . . . Continue Reading »