Does your Jewish family want to earn $50,000? Pack up the U-Haul and learn to say “y’all” : Of the 140 houses of worship in Dothan, Alabama—a city of 68,000 residents and the self-proclaimed “Peanut Capital of the World”—just one is a synagogue. Members of that . . . . Continue Reading »
The pop culture critics at L’ Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican, have already shown they have questionable taste in music . Now their choice of movies is likely to to raise a few eyebrows: They’ve added The Blues Brothers to their list of “Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
In Riding Away , today’s “On the Square” article, Joseph Bottum . . . no, just read it. Any teaser I could give you would give away too much. But it does begin this way: She was wiry and whip-thin, like most of the kids who come off the ranches, and like nearly all of them, she . . . . Continue Reading »
“Many conclude that if you value your happiness and spending money, the only way to win the modern parenting game is not to play. Low fertility looks like a sign that we’ve finally grasped the winning strategy,” writes Bryan Caplan in The Breeder’s Cup , published in . . . . Continue Reading »
“It’s this integration of the mundane and the mythic that enables the trilogy to hold its readers in thrall,” explains Salon.com’s Laura Miller in Why We Can’t Get Enough of Stieg Larsson’s Hacker Heroine . I had picked up at the library the first book of . . . . Continue Reading »
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, “Jeroboam Sacrificing to the Golden Calf” (1752), École des Beaux-Arts, ParisWhat if the intractable problem of evil, in which evil and suffering make the existence of an omnipotent and omnibenevolent God extremely dubious, isn’t a problem after . . . . Continue Reading »
Belief: Readings on the Reason for FaithEdited by Francis S. CollinsHarperOne, 2010352 pp., $19.99What kind of flowers does Francis S. Collins—one of the world’s leading geneticists—gather? His new anthology, modestly entitled Belief, answers this bizarre question. The etymological . . . . Continue Reading »
Imagine a world where humanity becomes better. Better in social context and better in biological content. That was and is the promise of the progressive movement. The social context is where we usually spend our time as we deal with progressives. They begin by presenting the Christian with the . . . . Continue Reading »
For whatever reason, the six-year venture of the Women’s Bioethics Project has come to an end with a recent announcement that they are closing their doors. But their work is not really finished, it is evolving. Kathryn Hinsch writes on the organization’s website:We need ways to . . . . Continue Reading »
1. BP is responsible for the gulf oil problem. No doubt.2. The Constitution has something to say about wrongs and payment:No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval . . . . Continue Reading »
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