You have probably gotten so used to seeing the announcement that you don’t notice it any more, but I commend to your attention our Students of Faith Survey . We would be grateful if readers who are in college or who graduated in the last couple of years would fill it out, and if the rest of . . . . Continue Reading »
Robert P. George (Princeton profile and photo here and Wikipedia article here ) will be appearing this evening at 8:00 on Raymond Arroyo’s show, “The World Live” on EWTN. The network offers a channel finder . George is a member of the First Things board. Among his “On . . . . Continue Reading »
The Lutheran theologian David Yeago offered a seminary professor’s view of plagiarism among ministers in response to my Pastoral Plagiarism . It spurred me to look on the web for other articles of his, and I came across one from last year that might still interest some of you thinking about . . . . Continue Reading »
Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann has assisted my understanding of genre and authorial intent in the so-called “first creation story” (Genesis 1:1-2:4a). I will distill his treatment from An Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination. Work slowly . . . . Continue Reading »
This week we learned that the Pope will not accept the resignation of two Irish auxiliary bishops, Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field. The Murphy Report in 2009 implicated them in the larger failures of the Irish hierarchy to respond to sexual abuse by priest. John Allen at the National Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »
There tends to be confusion in some responses to the recent decision to overturn Proposition 8 in California. On the one hand, defenders of traditional marriage often point to natural law, or if not natural law, at least a common wisdom about the natural purposes of marriage—a disciplining . . . . Continue Reading »
Timothy Keller, pastor of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City and author of The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism, has written a paper for BioLogos called, “Creation, Evolution, and Christian People.” Pastor Keller estimates that “what current science tells . . . . Continue Reading »
Middle-aged readers, at least those who grew up in certain areas, may remember that Sears was once the definition of uncool. It was the processed cheese spread of retailing. It was stereotypical middle America. Imagine my surprise when a friend sent out the link to a story titled Sears: Where . . . . Continue Reading »
At his New York Times blog, Ross Douthat has been doing a yeoman’s work, making me almost regret my critique of his essay on gay marriage by offering a patient, sophisticated case for preserving the “ideal” of heterosexual marriage. Specifically, I was pleased to see him affirm my . . . . Continue Reading »
Today in “On the Square,” Mary Rose Somarriba describes A Girl’s Life in the Cyberbubble . The sexualization of children, she writes, seems to be affecting girls more than boys, and sexualization is different from healthy sexuality. As Sax sees it, girls who dress sexy “prior . . . . Continue Reading »
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