Ryan T. Anderson

Frequent First Things contributor Alan Jacobs has a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal , ” Too Much Faith in Faith .” It’s a provocative thesis—that Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris and all the other atheism-pushers uncritically attribute too large of a role to religion. . . . . Continue Reading »

That seems to be what Forbes magazine is after in this interview with stem-cell scientist extraordinaire James Thomson. BioEdge highlights these excerpts from Thomson: ? “I do think there will be some niches where transplantation is important, but I think people are grossly underestimating . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, and Nathaniel , if you think Canada is bad, did you see what’s up at Yale? Here’s a bit from Michael Gerson’s column in yesterday’s Washington Post : The American kickoff of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation last week unintentionally revealed the mountain of . . . . Continue Reading »

Look, when we think about ending an early human life, this is something that is really bad for the embryo or early fetus that dies, it’s losing out tremendously—I agree with that as I already said. And then you said that it’s one of the things that we should care about. And, um, I think . . . . Continue Reading »

A knock-off on “Stuff White People Like” but this is pretty funny: http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/ Some highlights: http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/2008/04/189-gdtr.html http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/2008/04/187-leaving-room-for-holy-spirit-when.html . . . . Continue Reading »

The blogosphere and op/ed pages have been abuzz the past few days discussing Obama and the Catholics, especially after Hilary Clinton took 70% of the Catholic voters in the Pennsylvania Democratic Primary. One of the key issues that has come up again and again has been abortion, on the assumption . . . . Continue Reading »

Nathaniel, at least Coolio had the good sense of keeping some of the original phrasing—-No, “And even though I walk through the Hood of death,” here. From the 1995 movie “Dangerous Minds”: . . . . Continue Reading »

Bob Novak chastised the archbishops of Washington and New York in his Washington Post column today . Novak argued that the bishops invited pro-abort politicians to attend the Papal Mass, which implicitly included a welcome to the communion rail. And in doing so they had subverted Benedict’s . . . . Continue Reading »

That’s the title of a recent article in MercatorNet by Maggie Gallagher . Gallagher, the President of the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy, is quite simply the most effective spokesperson making public arguments in defense of marriage today. Not surprisingly, she’s also a First . . . . Continue Reading »

Michael Fragoso, policy analyst at Family Research Council, sends along the following: The Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) was victorious in Sunday’s parliamentary elections. Although the center-right People’s Party (PP) made some isolated gains and the PSOE again failed to win an . . . . Continue Reading »