Ross’s take on Europe and Islam focuses deftly on the democratic deficit behind the Continent’s integration problem: this political style — forge a consensus among the establishment, and assume you can contain any backlash that develops — is [ . . . ] how the Continent came to . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly , Father Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M. dissects a feeble effusion of what passes for theological progressivism these days from the pen of Terrance Tilley. Tilley is a professor of theology at Fordham and an old warhorse of the American . . . . Continue Reading »
Interesting news from the Senate floor : “Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) on Thursday said that he would not vote to advance the Senate’s health care reform bill unless it includes additional restrictions on the use of federal subsidies to purchase insurance plans that include abortion . . . . Continue Reading »
Continuing coverage : “To me,” Mr. Meehan said, “the healing power of being able to write through everything, talk through everything, really helped me make order of it.” “That’s something I know is going to be one of the tragic long-lasting effects of the Fort Hood . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the third part in a twelve part devotional commentary on “O Holy Night.” See the introduction here.A thrill of hope The weary world rejoices,For yonder breaks A new and glorious morn.As a consequence of sin, God cursed the ground (Gen 3:17). Man has had to toil in pain to provide . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember the “Hokey Pokey,” the silly little ditty your well-meaning 3rd grade teacher made you sang and dance to? You put your right hand in, You put your right hand out, You put your right hand in, And you shake it all about. You do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself around. Well, . . . . Continue Reading »
In a blog entry on December 3, Brian Auten wrote a substantive critique of my work with the Two Futures Project (2FP), a confessional Christian movement for the global abolition of nuclear weapons. To conclude his post, Auten raised four questions intended to open up the possibility that . . . . Continue Reading »
Fritz Wagner over at Voegelin View has an insightful observation on Climategate here , including one of Dr. Voegelin’s prescient observations written some decades prior to the current embarrassment. . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Asia Times Online I posted a “Spengler” piece dissecting the Friday unemployment report. I hate to bother with such things, but someone has to do it.Here is a Top 10 of reasons to scrooge the BLS report:10. ... nearly 300,000 people disappeared from the labor force, yet the . . . . Continue Reading »
Jordan Ballor has an intriguing post on “the relationship between the church’s approach to charity and the creation of the welfare state” as discussed in Lester DeKoster and Gerard Berghoef 1980 book, The Deacons Handbook: A Manual of Stewardship:DeKoster and Berghoef argue in . . . . Continue Reading »
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