Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, asks dialogue partners if an ecumenical catechism might work: A Vatican official has floated the idea of a shared ecumenical catechism as one of the potential fruits of 40 years of dialogue among . . . . Continue Reading »
Last time I left you off with something like this — The problem is what to do about pain. See: the common argument here — which John Loftus plainly used to dismiss God — is that all pain ought to be stopped whenever possible. A universe with suffering in it precludes the Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
Big newsjust heard though the grapevine: Baylor University will announce later today that Kenneth Starr is taking over as the school’s new president. . . . . Continue Reading »
The excerpt below is from the introduction of a book that I highly recommend. Evangel readers will be treated to a concise survey of how beauty declined in modern religious thought and how it is slowly being reclaimed. The authors evaluate the gains and costs associated with contemporary theological . . . . Continue Reading »
David Schaengolds excellent observations about the modern skyscraper continue to draw well-deserved attention. Rod Dreher is the latest to chime in , touting the cathedral as the superior to the cold and forbidding beauty of the modern skyscraper: Still, I think Schaengold is on . . . . Continue Reading »
Philemon was a prominent first-century Christian who owned a slave named Onesimus. Although the name “Onesimus” means “useful,” Onesimus proved himself “useless” when he ran away from his master and perhaps even stole from him (Philemon 18). Somehow Onesimus came . . . . Continue Reading »
Valentine’s Day shouldn’t come and go without at least a mention. There’s enough myth going around about the origin of the holiday to commission a scholar to cut to the chase. This was done by the Teaching Company a good while back, I took some notes, and herewith the gritty . . . . Continue Reading »
NYT columnist Nicholas D. Kristof writes today about another one of those “conservatives are from Venus, liberals from Mars,” kind of studies that come along from time to time. Supposedly, we are hard wired to our political persuasions, as evidenced by our reactions to various . . . . Continue Reading »
So I finaly saw CRAZY HEART. It’s supposed to remind you of TENDER MERCIES. There’s another old-guy, almost has-been brilliant country singer/songwriter turned around by a beautiful single mom with a father-starved little boy. Robert Duvall shows up in CRAZY HEART as the only real . . . . Continue Reading »
I reported earlier on the Rom Houben case that made international headlines when it turned out that he had been misdiagnosed by his physicians as unconscious for 26 years. New diagnostic techniques showed near normal brain function. And, it appeared, he could communicate with the help of a . . . . Continue Reading »