Matthew Cantirino

The Cathedral in the Gulag Archipelago Rorate Caeli Democrats’ Abortion Priority Ashley E. McGuire,  The Corner “There’s the Line, for Me, Between Acceptable and Unacceptable Calvinism” Roger E. Olson,  Patheos British Christians in the European Court of Human . . . . Continue Reading »

Making It Work Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing Who Was Sun Myung Moon? Eileen Barker, CNN Belief Blog Cardinal Gibbons and the Knights of Labor Donald R. McClary, The American Catholic Gregory Peck, Miroslav Volf, Christianity, and the Use of Force Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Muslims from Abroad . . . . Continue Reading »

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that California’s Assembly has passed a bill allowing “more than two” individuals to have legally recognized claims to the parenthood of a child: Lawmakers approved SB1476 by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, on a party line vote, . . . . Continue Reading »

The Moral Decline in the Words We Use Jen Doll, The Atlantic The Politics of Frodo Baggins Rod Dreher, The American Conservative The Philosophy of Wittgenstein’s Photographs Ray Monk, New Statesman Jewish Homeschooling Increases in Popularity Steve Lipman, New York Jewish Week Stumble Stones . . . . Continue Reading »

Crossing the border from Austria into the Slovakian capital, Bratislava, one is immediately overwhelmed by the standardized high-rise apartment blocks, badly aging holdovers from the Communist era. They now seem like a postmodern punchline amid thickets of billboards on which scantily clad women push casinos, liquor, and cars. But as these monuments to Communism and capitalism jostle for space, they are both alike overshadowed by the medieval castles and churches and monuments to the Holy Trinity… . Continue Reading »

Fare Forward is a recently launched journal whose masthead announces it as a “Christian review of ideas.” Staffed by a small team of students and recent college graduates, the name “is taken from ‘The Dry Salvages’, the third quartet of T.S. Eliot’s . . . . Continue Reading »

Signs of the Dark Knight Br. Athanasius Murphy, O.P., Dominicana A Political History of Judicial Conservatism Michael Fragoso, Public Discourse Orthodoxy and the Returns of Love Allison Backous Troy, Good Letters Animal and Plant Souls? H. H. Ambrose, St. Peter’s List Why “Traditional . . . . Continue Reading »

The Problem of Place: A Local and Universal Church James Matthew Wilson,  Front Porch Republic The Scriptural Roots of Augustine’s Spirituality Stephen N. Filippo,  Ignatius Insight The Decline of the American Political Convention Geoffrey Kabaservice,  Oxford University Press . . . . Continue Reading »

Stanley Hauerwas takes on C. S. Lewis’  defense of just war at the ABC [Australia] Religion & Ethics site: I must write critically of Lewis because here I want to examine his views concerning violence and war. I am a pacifist. Lewis was anything but a pacifist. I want to show . . . . Continue Reading »

When Spirits Collided: Islam and Christianity in the West Dario Fernandez-Morera, Library of Law and Liberty Life Is Cheap in Norway: C. S. Lewis and Anders Breivik John Piper,  Desiring God Language: Irregular, But Not Arbitrary Phillip Ball,  Prospect A “Duty” to Engineer . . . . Continue Reading »