I just came across a blog called Civil Religion in the St. Louis Post Dispatch that eloquently applied the “duties” side of human exceptionalism with regard to the BP catastrophe. From “BP Oil Disaster & Human Responsibility: We Did This,” by Sharon Autenrieth:I . . . . Continue Reading »
Coming tomorrow in “On the Square”: our web editor Joe Carter examines the early and late (“mature” is probably not quite the right word) work of Thomas Kinkade. . . . . Continue Reading »
Good for Secretary State Hillary Clinton for focusing on the problems in the USA with sex trafficking. From the story:There are thousands of modern-day “slaves” in America - girls and boys forced into the sex trade, and men and women held in debt bondage, Secretary of State Clinton . . . . Continue Reading »
Since when is it U.S. policy to stop people trying to find Osama bin Laden ? . . . . Continue Reading »
“For many of us who love the act of writing—even when we are writing against a deadline with an editor waiting for the copy—there is something monastic about the process, a confrontation with one’s thoughts that has a value apart from the proximity or even perhaps the . . . . Continue Reading »
“Touchdown Jesus” statue destroyed by lightning : Touchdown Jesus, more properly known as King of Kings, was one of southwest Ohio’s best known — and biggest — landmarks: A fixture at the Solid Rock Church by Monroe, Ohio since it was completed in 2004, it had a 42-foot . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the things about our current cultural milieu that has always puzzled me is the drive to create an absolute fundamental right to procreate—and the concomitant push to permit an absolute and fundamental right to destroy unborn life. (You know how it goes: Today, the child is . . . . Continue Reading »
Kevin DeYoung reviews Richad Stearns’s The Hole in Our Gospel—the Evangelical Publishing Association’s 2010 Book of the Year.Kevin prefaces his review in this way:There are many more positives I could highlight about Stearns and his book than get included in my piece. The nature of . . . . Continue Reading »
Priestly celibacy, Pope Benedict XVI recently told a gathering of priests, as reported by the Italian journalist Sandro Magister, is an anticipation “of the world of the resurrection.” It is the sign “that God exists, that God is part of my life, that I can base my life on Christ, . . . . Continue Reading »
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