This essay by Carl Trueman is travelling like wildfire around the Christian blogging community, and with good reason. It’s a scathing critique of the profligate self-promotion that goes on in the Christian blogging community:Let’s stop there a minute. This is madness. Is this where . . . . Continue Reading »
Now that the semester is almost over, a brief follow up to the discussion about the place of conservatism in the university . . . . . . reading this piece about Donald Livingston and the Abbeville Institute got me thinking: what new books about conservative thought would it be beneficial for . . . . Continue Reading »
(You can find episode 1 here.)Episode 2:02 Track 2In this episode, Laura, the facilitator, at the politically correct Community School is interrupted in her attempt to put the x over X-mas by a visit from Sarah Parker-Drew, the major donor, and her friend Ronald Cordon-Smith (a fan of Laura and her . . . . Continue Reading »
What happens when you’re told that you were a mistake, that you shouldn’t have been born, and that your parents were selfish to allow you into this world?One of my dear friends, Caleb Jones, has been forced to face that question head on in the last few days and weeks. His thoughts on . . . . Continue Reading »
As one who grew up right across the state line from New Orleans and spent most of my young life romping through its streets and marshes, I took my family to see Disney’s latest animated film “The Princess and the Frog,” set in the Crescent City and the bayous around it.Since then . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m growing older, as my wife reminds me dutifully. One thing about growing older is that you enjoy things in a different way than you used to. I don’t know about you, but for me the best part of Christmas gifts is now giving gifts, not receiving them. I love to give my loved ones gifts. . . . . Continue Reading »
The BBC has an interesting discussion of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and his role in getting refugees out of Franco’s Spain: In 1938, Neruda was a diplomat, representing Chile in Paris. He chartered a ship, the SS Winnipeg, to convey 2,000 Spanish Republicans to Chile. He was there on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Al Gore predicted direly that “new” information coming to his attention predicts an ice free arctic in 2014. Oh no!!! Stifle all economic activity! Return to being hunter/gatherers—better yet, just gatherers!One little problem: The professor upon whose work Gore’s . . . . Continue Reading »
A vaginal gel designed to prevent women from contracting the HIV virus, has failed in African studies. From the story:U.S. drug company Endo Pharmaceuticals’ (ENDP.O) gel designed to prevent infection with the AIDS virus was ineffective in trials in Africa, Britain’s Medical Research . . . . Continue Reading »
In the November 17th issue of The Christian Century , Miroslav Volf reveals that he was one of the experts consulted by Yale University Press in The Cartoons That Shook the World fiasco and explains why he recommended that the press not reprint the Danish images. Doing so, Volf writes, . . . would . . . . Continue Reading »
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