There are times when it’s necessary to look through a telescope for the big picture and other times when it’s necessary to look through a microscope for the small picture. Generally, I’m looking through the telescope. That explains why I’m currently reading The Religion and . . . . Continue Reading »
Something for those of you who love the nineteenth century Russian novelists. After reading David Hart’s Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (and Christ) , an academic friend wrote me that he did not find Hart’s argument completely convincing. Hart had written, for example, that among the very . . . . Continue Reading »
Patheos has an excellent interview with sociologist and historian of religion Rodney Stark. As with anything from Stark, it’s difficult to choose just one section to quote. But here’s the core of his claim:When I was very young, there was a Protestant mainline and they . . . . Continue Reading »
Over the weekend, courtesy of my friends at Netflicks, the wife and I watched what may be the most under appreciated film in quite some time, The Last Station. Beautifully filmed while adhering closely to period costume, architecture, and environment (1910 Russia) the drama examines both . . . . Continue Reading »
Doctors commit infanticide in Netherlands and don’t face arrest. Instead, they write learned articles about their infanticide practice in medical journals extolling the bureaucratic baby killing check list known as the Groningen Protocol. But when a Dutch mother allegedly does the . . . . Continue Reading »
A few links mainly of interest to Catholic readers. Writing in the New Statesman , Carla Powell demands that liberals end their hostility to the pope , partly because he’s right about something they don’t see. Moral relativism has become a kind of intellectual disease, weakening . . . . Continue Reading »
A high school history teaches asks New York state to Fix the Regents’ Exams . ”The correlation between increased passing rates and the increasingly content-free nature of the exams is,” he argues, “hard to miss.” An English government study says that . . . . Continue Reading »
Based on the quotations below, Augustine would say creationists and ID proponents are “reckless and incompetent expounders of Scripture” because they turn the Bible into primitive science.From Peter Enns, Senior Fellow in Biblical Studies at the BioLogos Foundation:You cannot expect the . . . . Continue Reading »
I received a surprise package in the mail a few weeks ago. My friend Lisa K. Gigliotti has written a book: Coraggio! Lessons for Living From an Italian Grandmother. Lisa has rheumatoid arthritis and knows vividly what it is like to live a life in disabling pain and ill . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s boring! It’s like a long (really long) video game. It’s fairly complicated, like a good game/puzzle, but you’d have to get more involved than any reasonable viewer could to follow all the clever stuff. It has very annoying background music, a lame attempt to make . . . . Continue Reading »
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