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Why Tim Tebow Keeps Smiling McClatchy News , Jennifer A. Marshall The Tempting of the Christian Right New York Times , Ross Douthat The God of Awkward Virgins Her.meneutics , Anna Broadway Pope ‘amused’ by seat belt complaint Catholic Herald , John Thavis Women, Stop Submitting to Men . . . . Continue Reading »

Why is art so expensive? Blake Gopnik has an superb article outlining five reasons why art defies economics : I asked the great New York collector Agnes Gund how she would feel about her artworks if their value suddenly halved. “I wouldn’t feel they would have changed,” she said, . . . . Continue Reading »

In the latest issue of The American Spectator , Jonathan Witt issues a reminder that business, justice, and the Gospel are already “social” : The adjective that economist Friedrich Hayek famously called a “weasel word” is alive and well in the feel-good phrases  social . . . . Continue Reading »

Can colleges demand students affirm homosexuality? Court to decide Baptist Press , Leigh Jones Witness to Life Policy Review , Mary Eberstadt Sending of Sexual Images by Minors, Isn’t As Prevalent As Expected New York Times , Ahnahad O’Connor Loss Steels Resolve in Personhood Amendment . . . . Continue Reading »

“The value of a generation must be somewhat determined by its progeny, for a generation is partly responsible for what legacy it passes on,” says Stephen Masty in an entertaining rant against the “cult of the ‘Greatest Generation.’” And what did the Greatest . . . . Continue Reading »

If one of the new male sperm meets and unites with an egg cell, a new life begins. From The Gift of Life , a pamphlet published in 1951 by Planned Parenthood. How broadly, though, do we want to use the adjective “Christian”?   I don’t make Christian art:  I’m a . . . . Continue Reading »

Interpreting the Establishment Clause (without an Agenda) Public Discourse , Russell Nieli Jews, Christians and Judaeo-Christians Standpoint , Geza Vermes Where is the love in R&B music? CNN , John Blake Living Like Jesus Is the Only Way The Gospel Coalition , Thomas Schreiner A review of Hugo . . . . Continue Reading »

Patrick Deneen on the science of politics and the conquest of nature : For the ancients, man was bound by but not wholly defined as part of nature. The studies of natural phenomena and human affairs had to be distinct disciplines, for all of the reasons that nature and man are distinct in kind. On . . . . Continue Reading »

Dads are Doing More, But Moms are More Stressed, Study Finds Los Angeles Times , Melissa Healy Study: 40% of Kids Who Attempt Suicide First Try in Elementary or Middle School Time , Bonnie Rochman Evangelist Billy Graham Hospitalized CNN Pennsylvania: Clinic Workers Plead Guilty To Murders . . . . Continue Reading »

“First World problems” is a term recently popularized on the Internet to designate the frustrations and complaints that are only experienced by privileged individuals in wealthy countries. A prime example is the bizarre reaction to Siri , the new iPhone’s intelligent personal . . . . Continue Reading »