I was just interviewed by a high school student about how I became involved in anti assisted suicide activism. It’s a painful story. I was very happily co-authoring books with Ralph Nader, who had been my hero as a teenager. I couldn’t believe my good fortune to be both . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the wonderful moments in St. Augustine’s Confessions returned to me in force from out of the blue. Now, I’ve not been a Christian for long in my adult life, having been raised within the fold of the Church, but having fallen away for 20 years of my adult life until fairly . . . . Continue Reading »
We begin with the axiom that all things are interpreted. We interpret the world around us according to our personal framework — our world view and our presumed method(s) for arriving at an accurate conclusion. We may learn these frameworks from others and subsequently tailor them as needed to . . . . Continue Reading »
I have no idea how long ago I received my review copy of Abide by Jared C. Wilson, but it has had me on a guilt trip every since it came in the mail box.See: Jared and I sort of met because we both started blogging at Evangel, and I think we weren’t supposed to like each other. He’s a . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s On the Square feature, we have tributes to the late Cardinal John O’Connor from Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, Ed Koch, Brian Caulfield, and Fr. Frank Pavone. . . . . Continue Reading »
In a few weeks I will start reading through the student evaluations of the faculty members I supervise. My favorite part of this task is scanning the written comments for the kinds of nuggets that only students can produce. Perhaps my all-time favorite came to my attention . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things , our generous host magazine, is now having its annual online fundraising week. This week only they’re offering to their readers a special subscription rate of $19.95 for the print magazine. To get this deal, readers have to go to this page ( . . . . Continue Reading »
Among the many ironies punctuating Catholic history, one of the more curious is the spectacle of theologians, dedicated to expounding doctrine on the God who “is love” (1 John 4:8), insisting that infants who die unbaptized will never see God. But, in a letter published in the print . . . . Continue Reading »
I published the following piece in the last-but-one issue (November 1990) of The Reformed Journal. Given First Things’ ongoing effort to increase mutual understanding between Catholics and evangelicals, I thought my piece might provoke some movement in that direction, so I post it below for . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the most encouraging trends of the last few months has been conservatives finally admitting what most of us have always known: The “starve the beast” strategy—the idea that the best way to shrink the size of the federal government is to continually keep taxes . . . . Continue Reading »
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