As someone who considers a well-chosen book the best of all possible gifts, my recommended first stop in the December issue must be the special Christmas for Readers section. Among the “ Thrillers and Throwbacks ,” Gyles Brandreth’s Oscar Wilde mystery looks especially promising, and . . . . Continue Reading »
The Senate version of Obamacare will tax elective cosmetic surgery. From the story:The bill levies a 5 percent tax on elective cosmetic surgery. The provision raises $5 billion and was needed to make the numbers work, according to a Democratic Senate aide. The Finance Committee considered the tax . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m a huge fan of Jon L. Breen’s recap of the best crime and mystery novels of 2009. Breen displays a magisterial command over the genre’s canon, and, along the way, he helps less knowledgeable readers such as myself sort out the wheat from the chaff: Few writers today attempt the . . . . Continue Reading »
The December issue is hot off the presses! I know; you’re thinking Where do I start? Let me suggest ” The Needle’s Eye: Why America’s Economic Recovery Needs the Global South ,” by Reuven Brenner and David P. Goldman. . . . . Continue Reading »
And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him till the morning. And he saw that he prevailed not against him; and he touched the broad part of his thigh, and the broad part of Jacob’s thigh was benumbed in his wrestling with him. And he said to him, Let me go, for the day . . . . Continue Reading »
First the Episcopalians, and now the Lutherans . . . The split over gay clergy within the country’s largest Lutheran denomination has prompted a conservative faction to begin forming a new Lutheran church body separate from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Leaders of Lutheran CORE . . . . Continue Reading »
The recent debate about whether the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed should be held in New York City has overshadowed the question of whether the trial should even be held by a federal criminal court rather than by a military tribunal. The obvious answer, as indicated by a recent exchange between . . . . Continue Reading »
This is the first time in its nearly three-week history that I will be silent on Evangel. I invite my friends here to do the same.The reason is the same as it always is.I decided to read Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish.When dealing with a delusional fantasist like Andrew Sullivan, it takes time . . . . Continue Reading »
Each fall the CBC asks me to predict what will happen in the coming year in bioethics/biotechnology. To say the least, I have a mixed record. I was more worried about 2009 than turned out to be warranted by events especially about assisted suicide which moved the ball not at all in the . . . . Continue Reading »
The editorial I referenced in a recent post is now available online. It is Philip Yancey’s last CT column (for the foreseeable future anyway), after 26 years of writing for the magazine.The piece is short but potent. A taste of “O, Evangelicos!”:As I survey evangelicalism I see . . . . Continue Reading »
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