A friend in Turkey calls my attention to a dramatic reform of the Turkish education system favoring graduates of Islamic religious high schools, calling it the most important developing in the country since 1923:ANKARA, July 22 (AFP)—Turkey’s Islamist-rooted government Wednesday . . . . Continue Reading »
Here’s an interesting sculptural specimen I ran across in the crypt at the Episcopal Church of the Frescoes in Glendale Springs, North Carolina, back in June. It is, as you can see, a representation of Our Lord wearing what looks like a pashmina, or maybe a camel’s-hair hand-me-down from . . . . Continue Reading »
Overheard at Marginal Revolution : . . . Uncle Sam is on the verge of paying the City of Los Angeles $30 million to subsidize a ten-year run of Cirque du Soleil. So it’s finally come to pass—America has embarked on the same road down which ancient Rome marched to its ruin: Uncle Sam not . . . . Continue Reading »
Jesus and Mary key covers:I was going to say: Because Christians have keys, too. But, Sally, these are from Urban Outfitters, which suggests something—though I’m not quite sure what.Urban Outfitters is sort of Yuppie Hipsterdom, right? Like Pottery Barn: a chain store of hip stuff for the . . . . Continue Reading »
Over in Slate , Jacob Weisberg writes a piece about how Obama’s insanities in foreign policy derive from his sane desire to be the anti-Bush. Bush, you see, was so bad that he’s still making Obama make mistakes. The evil of Bush was so evil that, in recoiling from it, the righteous . . . . Continue Reading »
Theologian Carl Trueman proposes Trueman’s Second Law : In any exchange of views, sooner or later one or more of the participants will describe themselves as hurt or in pain as a result of somebody else’s comment; and at that point it is clear that they have lost the real debate. I . . . . Continue Reading »
Obama, the candidate (June 2008) : “And Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” The Obama Administration (July 2009) : “The United States views East Jerusalem as no different than an illegal West Bank outpost with regard to its demand for a . . . . Continue Reading »
Slate’s Will Saletan has an essay in today’s New York Times Book Review, and it is of a species that always drives me a little around the corner. He writes that our organs will soon either be viewed as a commodity or an asset of the commons, depending on whether we go . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert P. George, a member of First Things ’ editorial board, published an op-ed piece in this morning’s Wall Street Journal . It concerns the issue of same-sex marriage and the courts. Here is an excerpt: We are in the midst of a showdown over the legal definition of marriage. Though . . . . Continue Reading »
Houston Baptist University publishes this wonderful new periodical called The CIty . (Full disclosure: I am one of its advisory editors). In the Winter 2008 issue, Matthew Lee Anderson , published an insightful essay, “The New Evangelical Scandal.” My good friend, Professor John Mark . . . . Continue Reading »
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