Nathaniel Peters

Earlier I mentioned a conference on historical criticism and the Qur’an taking place at Notre Dame this week. In today’s New York Times Nicholas Kristof describes some of the topics the conference will cover: At Notre Dame, scholars analyzed ancient texts of the Koran that show signs of . . . . Continue Reading »

What would Pride and Prejudice and Zombies be like? You probably saw the book mentioned somewhere (in the recent Public Square , perhaps) and found yourself intrigued by the title. It turns out that taking the abridged text of Pride and Prejudice and adding “unmentionables,” vomit, . . . . Continue Reading »

Religion Clause , the blog for all things First Amendment, reports that the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships has set up six task forces to advise the President on the following topics: “(1) reform of the faith-based office, (2) fatherhood, (3) . . . . Continue Reading »

Gabriel Reynolds, assistant professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame, writes us: First Things might have some interest in the international conference on the Qur’an that is opening tonight at Notre Dame. Among others both Nasr Hamid Ab? Zayd and Abdolkarim Sorroush will be . . . . Continue Reading »

And according to Wikipedia , at least, Susan Boyle is an active volunteer at Our Lady of Lourdes, Blackburn. . . . . Continue Reading »

China’s one-child policy should be the dream come true of population-control advocates. But there’s just one problem: The Chinese prefer boys to girls, so girls are more likely to be aborted than boys. Sixteen million girls, to be precise, between 1985 and 2005, a slaughter of . . . . Continue Reading »

My freshman year of college I first encountered the Regina Coeli from Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana , sung after Mass on Easter Sunday in place of the Angelus. The Regina Coeli lasts only a few seconds, however, before a rollicking Easter hymn begins: Inneggiamo, il Signor non è morto. . . . . Continue Reading »

Those interested in new Christian publications should check out The Christendom Review . The journal describes itself as follows: The Christendom Review is a literary journal dedicated to the Diaspora of Christendom, that remnant of people who either deliberately or intuitively subscribe to the . . . . Continue Reading »

At the first Easter Vigil I ever attended I heard Edward Bairstow’s “Sing Ye to the Lord.” The choir begins with a triumphant singing of the beginning of the Song of Moses: “Sing Ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously! Pharoah’s chariots and his horse hath he . . . . Continue Reading »

Our former assistant editor Mary Angelita Ruiz has a beautiful remembrance of Fr. Neuhaus in the new issue of Dappled Things , the magazine she helped found. The beginning is especially nice: Richard John Neuhaus sang “Come Thou Fount of Ev’ry Blessing,” that stalwart American hymn, . . . . Continue Reading »