Joseph Knippenberg

What was it that Cicero said? There is nothing so absurd that Peter Singer hasn’t said it? Something like that. The Princeton philosophy professor’s latest effusion offers an extraordinarily limited conception of religious freedom. Taking up controversies in the Netherlands over . . . . Continue Reading »

Increasingly, the name of the game is, according to David Gibson , “Golden Rule” Christianity: love your neighbor as yourself. This is what President Obama cited in explaining his support for same-sex marriage . Of course, the gloss both Gibson and Obama give on this injunction is . . . . Continue Reading »

Davidson College’s Board of Trustees is considering whether the institution’s requirement that its president be a Presbyterian should be upheld or abandoned.  The considerations advanced are familiar: the supposed tension between excellence and an increasingly limited pool of . . . . Continue Reading »

By now, almost everyone has heard or read that Vanderbilt University adopted an “all comers” policy for its student groups that has the effect of forcing some religious groups to choose between the benefits that attend recognition (access to university facilities and funding) and . . . . Continue Reading »

You don’t have to look too hard to find someone writing about the future of American higher education.  Everyone recognizes that “change” is in the air, but many don’t have much “hope.” For another site, I wrote about a couple of proposals, which (taken . . . . Continue Reading »

Today, Rep. Paul Ryan delivered a speech at Georgetown University, an institution some of whose faculty had recently criticized him. Here’s the crux of the letter (signed by roughly 90 faculty—I recognize a few of the names, including E.J. Dionne, Jr., and note only that precious few . . . . Continue Reading »

A few days ago, our friends at National Review Online editorialized against the so-called “People’s Rights Amendment,” which is an attempt to overturn the Supreme Court’s holding in the Citizens United case, a holding that is anathema to the President and many of his . . . . Continue Reading »

Paul Ryan has famously (or infamously ?)  claimed that the budget he proposed for the next fiscal year is a product of his encounter with Roman Catholic social teaching . The bishop who heads the USCCB committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development disagrees :   As pastors and . . . . Continue Reading »

Much ink has been spilled (if that’s still an intelligible expression in this digital age) about the likely evangelical resistance to voting for Mitt Romney.  But, to my mind, the recent Pew poll paints a different picture.  Here’s what we learn: Protestants favor Romney . . . . Continue Reading »

This morning, my wife was recounting a conversation she’d had with another parent at a local homeschooling co-op where she teaches and our children take classes.  Her friend—speaking parent to parent, not parent to teacher—stated quite emphatically that we parents are . . . . Continue Reading »