[Note: This is the part three of a debate concerning the nature and existence of God and his proper relation to the state.] Mr. Brown’s response to my opening post is below. My original text is in blockquote while his is in bold: I’ve inserted my responses to each paragraph below. Later, . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend responding to my The Changed Times Don’t Last , one of Monday’s “On the Square” articles, sent the link to a website called Rightwing Bob . The site’s owner writes in his description of what he’s doing that he seeks to redress the balance a little bit. . . . . Continue Reading »
As a read through the First Things archive can attest, the intersection of religion, culture, and public life is usually complex enough to require analysis, not mere observation as a spectator. New York City, the ” prolepsis of the New Jerusalem ,” has been a venue for quite a bit of . . . . Continue Reading »
I am taking a moment from my usual obsessions to highlight something that is more explicitly political than I like to get, but which is likely to have a material impact on the discussions we have here in the months and years to come, so I am crossing the line a bit. I think Sarah Palin just . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This is the part two of a debate concerning the nature and existence of God and his proper relation to the state.] All political problems, contends political philosopher Glenn Tinder, are rooted in estrangement—the various kinds of disunity among human beings. Without estrangement there . . . . Continue Reading »
White House OMB Director Peter Orszag has a column in today’s NYT that illustrates part of why so many are so implacably opposed to Obamacare. A large part of the column deals with ways in which the law is supposed to save money. He admits, for example, that billions have . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: This is the opening quotes for a debate concerning the nature and existence of God and his proper relation to the state.] Throughout the rest of this discussion, each debator’s entry will be posted seperately. But for now we’ll include the quotes together. First, the selection . . . . Continue Reading »
Since the post-election doldrums are a ripe time for debates about the role of religion in government, Barrett Brown and I have agreed to host a discussion, both here and at the League of Ordinary Gentleman blog, concerning the nature and existence of God and his proper relation to the state. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Liturgical scholar Peter Elliott explains why need a new translation of the Mass , with lots of examples. The “dynamic equivalance” or paraphrase of the present translation “can fail to give us not only what the Latin original means, which is bordering on telling lies, but . . . . Continue Reading »
I am sometimes asked what I mean by “global warming hysteria,” which is a different thing than whether, and to what extent, human activity might be—or is—warming the climate. Perhaps this post will help explain.Leaving aside the anti-humanism that leavens the movement, . . . . Continue Reading »
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