Matthew Cantirino

Surrogates and Their Discontents Chris White,  Public Discourse A Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical Dwight Garner,  New York Times The Anti-Ecclesial Rhetoric of Emerging Church Movements Ben Witherington,  The Bible and Culture St. Augustine, Asking Questions Atheists . . . . Continue Reading »

Aurelian Craiutu yesterday posted  an interesting essay  on Tocqueville at the Library of Law and Liberty blog, covering just a single-page chapter on what the nineteenth-century observer termed “pantheism.” It’s from the second part of the voluminous  . . . . Continue Reading »

Why the Amish Population Is Exploding Nate Berg,  Atlantic Cities Freedom’s Bundles and Lynchpins Thomas Farr,   Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs We Love Her, That Is All Sally Thomas,  Castle in the Sea Can You Be a Catholic and Have a Questioning Mind? . . . . Continue Reading »

At Some Evangelical Colleges, No Pastors Libby A. Nelson,  Inside Higher Ed The Coming Vindication of Pope Pius XII Edward Pentin,  National Catholic Register Secularism: Some Concepts and Distinctions Akeel Bilgrami,  Immanent Frame Joseph Mitchell and the Free Life Dermot Quinn, . . . . Continue Reading »

At Reformation 21 , Carl Trueman  enters  a debate over the purpose of Protestant seminaries—specifically, whether they ought to make a point of actively sculpting the spiritual lives of their students or whether they should tend to the more mundane goals of . . . . Continue Reading »

Beyond the Half-Way Covenant Matt Tully, The Gospel Coalition Houellebecq’s Exciting Tale of Boredom Marta Figlerowicz, Boston Review The Anglican Church “After the Fall”: A Reply to Ephraim Radner David W. Virtue, Virtue Online Beware Conflating Ideology and Character David . . . . Continue Reading »

Meet the “New New Atheists” Christopher R. Beha, Harper’s Paul Ryan, Joe Biden, and False Equivalence Carson Holloway, Catholic Vote Is Israel Succumbing to Jewish Fundamentalism? A Debate Avraham Burg and Daniel Gordis, The Economist Roger Kimball and the Work of Cultural . . . . Continue Reading »

Publisher Pulls David Barton Book on Jefferson Thomas Kidd,  World Antonin Scalia and the ICC Wendy Wright,  Turtle Bay and Beyond Losing Wonder, Bleaching the Real R. J. Snell, Anamnesis Romney Ad Hits Obama on Religious Freedom Alicia Mundy, Wall Street Journal The Sacred Rite of . . . . Continue Reading »

Monsignor Charles Pope has compiled a helpful and intriguing list of early Christian statements on the morality of abortion. Beginning with the Didache and ending in the seventh century, the sources (comprising both well-known individual writers and saints alongside more . . . . Continue Reading »

I, Nephi Adam Gopnik,  The New Yorker Puritanism and Democracy Thomas Kidd,  The Anxious Bench Concretizing the Abstract Ed Feser,  Ed Feser About That LCWR Speaker . . . Rod Dreher,  The American Conservative The Power to Destroy Michael Stokes Paulsen, Public Discourse . . . . Continue Reading »