In an interview on politics and theology , Peter Leithart comments on the role of worship in the political lives of Christians: Christians are engaged in political action just by being part of the church. Worship is the leading political activity of Christians. In worship, we sing Psalms that call . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s first “On the Square” article, Joe Carter writes In defense of the TSA , on a day when annoyed Americans are planning to protest the security measures now being taken at airports. “You might assume,” he writes, that preventing a similar type of attack . . . . Continue Reading »
According to a poll, middle-aged Americans are unhappy about their sexual lives . “Some 24 percent of middle-aged group say they are dissatisfied, compared with only 12 percent of 18- to 29-year-olds, 20 percent of those 30-44 and 17 percent of those over 65.” Increasing numbers of . . . . Continue Reading »
By Charles A. Donovan President Obama apparently has a soft spot in his heart for religious liberty. And the New York Times editorial board is not pleased . The president last week issued a much-awaited executive order setting government-wide policy on community-based and religious nonprofits that . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter Singer claimed at a Princeton symposium about abortion that public policy might not be able to reflect it, but in his view, children don’t achieve full moral status until after two years, which is how long it takes to develop into full personhood. From my transcription of Panel II . . . . Continue Reading »
Oops. Someone went off his talking points! An IPCC official named Ottmar Edenhofer admitted to a German publication that the intent of Cancun—Copenhagen’s next step—is really about redistributing wealth. From the interview:Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate . . . . Continue Reading »
The latest sign of the times from Britain: More than half of younger people have never heard of the King James Bible, a survey shows. Fifty-one per cent of under-35s did not know what the Authorised Version was, compared with 28 per cent of over-55s. The Authorised King James Version, which will be . . . . Continue Reading »
Tim Challies provides a remarkable statistic and a sobering reflection: Seven hundred billion minutes. That’s how much time Facebook’s 500 million active users spend on the site every month. 700,000,000,000 minutes. Let that one sink in for a moment. Every month we spend the equivalent of . . . . Continue Reading »
The founding principles of New York’s Museum of Modern Art are not unclear: Our ultimate purpose is to establish a permanent public museum in this city which will acquire . . . collections of the best modern works of art . . . We solicit the support of those who are . . . . Continue Reading »
Today, in “On the Square,” we’re very pleased to present some revealing and insightful quotes from Pope Benedict’s now famous book of interviews, Light of the World . The excerpts include the one that, released in partial form by the Vatican’s own newspaper and . . . . Continue Reading »
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