Matthew Cantirino

A Moral or a Scientific Critique? Peter Blair, Mere Orthodoxy Humanism Is an Impossible Dream Andrew Brown, The Guardian A Calvinist Response to Mourdock Carlton Wynne, Reformation21 Augustine and the Three Purposes of Rhetoric Fr.Michael Dominic O’Connor O.P., Homiletic & Pastoral Review . . . . Continue Reading »

Misreading the “Gift from God” Comments Amy Sullivan, The New Republic The Case for the Electoral College Derek T. Muller, Liberty Law Site Punditry and the Unseriousness of Human Affairs Mark Judge, Acculturated You Should Be Reading John Mikhail Rob Vischer, Mirror of Justice The . . . . Continue Reading »

A War on Religion? Bruce Hausknecht,  Public Discourse The Righteous Mind and the Libertarian Mind Emily Esfahani Smith, Washington Times Newsmagazine Death and the Dwindling Cult of Authority Jim Kelly, Vanity Fair A Dissident None on the Rising Unaffiliated Nathaniel Torrey, Juicy Ecumenism . . . . Continue Reading »

To Have and to Hold: A Roundup of Scholarly Articles on Marriage Kevin Lewis, National Affairs Church Scandals Must Come Fr. Stephen Freeman, Glory to God for All Things Get Ready for the Mali Invasion Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest Tom Wolfe and His New Novel, Back to Blood Boris . . . . Continue Reading »

Fewer Protestants, but Better Protestants? Terry Mattingly, GetReligion The Wrong Side of History Francis Cardinal George, O.M.I., Catholic New World Glory and Indignity: The Strange Life of John Randolph Allen Mendenhall, The University Bookman Does the Name “Theophilus” Violate the . . . . Continue Reading »

Putting Health’s Importance in Perspective Yuval Levin,  The New Atlantis A Welfare System That Works Naomi Schaefer Riley,  Philanthropy Roundtable The Struggle for Poland’s Soul Christian Lowe,  Reuters Why the Christian Philosopher and Christian College Need Each Other . . . . Continue Reading »

O Captain My Captain David Fulton, Harvard Ichthus Envy and the Undoing of American Mores Theodore Dalrymple, Liberty Law Site Charting a New Model for Catholic Education Sean Kennedy, City Journal Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory Lenny Moss, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews Planned . . . . Continue Reading »

Professor Anthony Gill, a political scientist at the University of Washington, talks to particle physicist Dr. Stephen M. Barr in a Research on Religion podcast. The casual, hourlong discussion veers from such topics as determinism and the role of the observer (get ready to reopen the catbox), . . . . Continue Reading »

A Fire-Stained and Blackened Cathedral: An Interview with Joshua Hren Meredith Wise, Dappled Things Understanding Internet Trolling Whitney Phillips,  The Atlantic Why I Like Denominations Roger E. Olson, Patheos Vatican II: The “Long Argument” is a Distraction Robert Royal, The . . . . Continue Reading »

Generation Whine: Self-Pitying Twentysomethings and the Boomers Who Made Them Laura Bennett, The New Republic The Book of Common Prayer at Three Hundred Fifty James Wood, The New Yorker Patheos Contretemps Re: Andy Warhol Thomas L. McDonald, God and the Machine Religious Themes in J. K. . . . . Continue Reading »