Joseph Bottum

Now this looks nice, a bookmark from the Met in New York:[Rating: 89 out of . . . . Continue Reading »

Because Christians need coffee tables, too.[Rating: 37 out of . . . . Continue Reading »

The Weekly Standard reports that the Stupak-Pitts amendment has been defeated: Last night, the House Energy and Commerce Committee narrowly passed the Stupak-Pitts amendment to prevent the bill from mandating that private insurance plans cover abortions, but when Chairman Henry Waxman brought the . . . . Continue Reading »

I once accused the young convert poet Robert ­Lowell of espousing Catholicism with all the marital fidelity of a gigolo on the make. Whatever the state of his personal faith as it developed through the 1940s and lapsed through the 1960s, he did not need to become a Catholic to find a poetic . . . . Continue Reading »

“Must we really entrust the future of biomedical research in the United States to a man who sincerely believes that a scientific understanding of human nature is impossible?” So Sam Harris asks in the New York Times . Harris’ column has received various replies, including a note from . . . . Continue Reading »

Because Christians need their doors stopped, too.[Rating: 7 out of . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . to this Bible holder, also from Ethiopia:[Rating: 85 out of . . . . Continue Reading »

. . . to this hand-held Coptic Cross from Ethiopia:[Rating: 65 out of . . . . Continue Reading »

As John Allen reports , in July, Rocco Buttiglione announced that his support for laws banning abortion had been a mistake: Perhaps the most prominent pro-life politician in Europe has said that he won’t support efforts to make abortion illegal, because “God entrusts a child to its mother . . . . Continue Reading »

The Senate in Jordan recently approved a law that would allow non-Muslim religious organizations to operate in the country, but the Jordanian House has refused the idea. According to the Jordan Times , “MPs who rejected this proposal said that if the law is endorsed as proposed by the . . . . Continue Reading »