Goodbye to St. Vincent’s

by Kevin Staley-Joyce

After 160 years, St. Vincent’s Hospital, the last Catholic general hospital in New York City,  has shut its doors for good. As we’ve  said before —it’s a sad, sad thing. . . . . Continue Reading »

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Chimps Bashing Trees Along the Spiritual Path

by David Mills

If we have souls, so do chimps , Jane Goodall claims in an article in The Spectator . Her evidence is thin: At Gombe, she also recorded the chimps performing what she calls a ‘rain dance’, whereby the creatures noisily run around bashing into the trees and each other in response to . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2010 0

The Tree That Gave Too Much

by Meghan Duke

Happy Arbor Day! In honor of Arbor day Time has a list of the top ten coolest “trees” of all time. How the Keebler elves’ tree ranked higher than Tolkien’s Treebeard is beyond me. Also among the top ten was Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, a tree that was the topic . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2010 0

Interview with Kevin DeYoung on The Good News We Almost Forgot in the Heidelberg Catechism

by James Grant

Speaking about the value of catechism...Kevin DeYoung, pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, MI, and one of the bloggers here at Evangel, recently agreed to an interview about his new book The Good News We Almost Forgot: Rediscovering the Gospel in a 16th Century Catechism, which is . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2010 0

A Jewish Perspective on Health Care

by Josh Tapper

Although it now bears the signature of President Barack Obama, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains a source of consternation across party lines. For those still engaged in partisan politics in the ongoing health-care debate, there may be something to be gleaned from Jewish . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2010 0

Straussophiles and Straussophobes Unite

by Peter Lawler

. . . in loving this new issue (really, every issue) of PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE—America’s leading political and philosophical journal. There’s a symposium on WHAT IS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY? (the book by Strauss, of course). It includes contributions by Rafe Major, Nasser . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2010 0

The Failures of the Church

by R. R. Reno

I’m like most. The latest wave of revelations about clerical sexual abuse demoralizes me. I’m not wavering in my conviction that the one true and apostolic communion of the saints subsists in the Catholic Church. I think of what St Paul says: “We have this treasure in earthen . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2010 0

Bob Dylan is a Phony, Unlike Joni Mitchell

by Joe Carter

[Bob Dylan] is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I. — Joni Mitchell , giving me a soundbite that I can use to stir up the FT Dylan Lovers Club. I find it fascinating that the . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2010 0

A Catholic Murder in Latin America

by Joseph Bottum

The atmosphere of the reporting on the scandals, and the reaction to that reporting, has been much in my mind . So what am I to make of this? Over at the CNN website, there’s a sad news story about the murder of an American priest, Fr. Esteban Woods, in Venezuela. And though the story . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Apr 2010 0

Italian Baby Aborted at 22 Weeks for Cleft Palate—Born Alive, Left to Die

by Wesley J. Smith

This is what Western Civilization is becoming. From the story : A baby found alive nearly a day after a failed abortion in Italy had been rejected by his mother because he had a cleft lip and palate, according to reports. The 22-week infant was found breathing a day after the operation. He died one . . . . Continue Reading »

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