Matthew Cantirino

Rahm Emanuel Turns Homeless Services Over to Catholic Charities John Byrne, Chicago Tribune Ratzinger, Vatican II, and the Summer of 1962 Gianni Valente, La Stampa History as a Hermenutic for Law Ed Peters, In the Light of the Law The Joys and Sorrows of Teaching Evolution at an Evangelical . . . . Continue Reading »

In a feature article for  New York magazine, Jonathan Chait examines the cultural sway of television and movies, concluding that their influence may be even greater than imagined. Especially in rapidly-industrializing folk societies like parts of rural India and Brazil, the power of electronic . . . . Continue Reading »

Civility in Argument Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse, Three Quarks Daily How Protestants Learned to Love the Pill Allan Carlson, Crisis The Economist’ s Strange Resurgence Aram Bakshian,  The National Interest Contemporary Art: Not Enough Dionysian? Simon Critchley, The Brooklyn Rail . . . . Continue Reading »

In a nearly 900-page new work that attempts to map an “alternative” to Evangelicalism’s two regnant theological models, Peter Gentry and Stephen Wellum “set out to carve a new path between dispensational and covenant theology, having concluded that neither hermeneutical . . . . Continue Reading »

The Wire and the American Underclass Francis Fukuyama,  The American Interest Conversations with J. I. Packer Justin Taylor,  The Gospel Coalition Does Religious Violence Justify Censorship? Max Fisher,  The Atlantic The Return of the Extended Family John Bingham,  Telegraph . . . . Continue Reading »

Solidarity or Bi-polarity? Fr. Robert Barron,  RealClearReligion David Foster Wallace’s God D. T. Max,  Newsweek The Talmud’s Warriors and Scholars Adam Kirsch,  Tablet A Pop-Culture Inferno Elissa Schappell,  Vanity Fair When Romney Was a Pastor Jason Horowitz, . . . . Continue Reading »

Last week’s verdict from a Moscow court on the fate of dissident punk band Pussy Riot seems to have divided religious commentators in unexpected ways—here’s Rod Dreher on the ordeal; for a different (and sympathetic) take, see John O’Sullivan at NRO; and of . . . . Continue Reading »

“All Have Sinned”: The US-Dakota War of 1862 Chris Gehrz,  The Pietist Schoolman The Heart of the Matter Bishop Edward M. Rice,  Homiletic & Pastoral Review Archaeology and the Bible Eric Metaxas,  Christian Post Cosmopolitan  Magazine’s “Wholesome . . . . Continue Reading »

Today’s young, orthodox Catholics aren’t ecclesial revanchists motivated a desire to turn back that clock we’re always informed can never stop ticking. In general, they’re very much engaged with the world around them, and not inclined to shut themselves off in . . . . Continue Reading »

Restore the Three-Hour Eucharistic Fast for Catholics? Joseph Shaw, Rorate Caeli Ten Years at a Crisis Pregnancy Center Eve Tushnet, Weekly Standard Religion, Science, and Apocalyptic Thinking Matt Ridley, Wired Gnostics for Religious Freedom Mark L. Movsesian, Center for Law and Religion Forum . . . . Continue Reading »