I went down to NYU law school today to visit my friend Joseph Weiler —you are all coming to the Eramus Lecture he’s delivering on March 7th, aren’t you? Anyway, while I was there I saw posters for a lecture this afternoon by Eugene Volokh on the structure of slippery-slope . . . . Continue Reading »
From John Knight:God does not fit into easy categories because only God is free and righteous and just and holy – all in infinite proportions. When he says he creates some who are disabled, he is speaking and acting out of his infinite depths of knowledge and righteousness, not our . . . . Continue Reading »
A temple complex in Turkey —older than both Stonehenge and the Pyramids—may overturn many of the assumptions of modern archeology and anthropology: Standing on the hill at dawn, overseeing a team of 40 Kurdish diggers, the German-born archeologist [Klaus Schmidt] waves a hand over his . . . . Continue Reading »
BTW, I’m telling you this story because this is one of the stories God tells us in His book about what kind of universe he’s running here — and the atheist needs at least to listen to the story even if he’s not willing to buy the whole thing from start to finish. Continue Reading »
First Things senior editor David Goldman has an article in the Tablet about a private, subscription-based CIA : How would you like to tap into an exclusive private intelligence service staffed by ex-CIA analysts who glean exclusive information from shadowy sources, cross-grid raw intel to detect . . . . Continue Reading »
As you can see by reading THE REBEL YELL , I will be speaking on Alexis at UNLV tomorrow night. I won’t be going as far as Paul Cantor in saying that Tocqueville predicted Vegas, because he didn’t begin to appreciate the opulent and extravagant contribution our Italian and Jewish . . . . Continue Reading »
The ethical struggle over medical futility can be intense, but I think both sides have the best interests of patients and society at heart. A very thoughtful commentary in the NEJM by Robert D. Truog—who, I have disagreed with in the past when he advocated doing away with the dead donor . . . . Continue Reading »
I was checking one of the trackbacks to this blog site from a web site called “Thoughts of Francis Turretin” which describes Evangel as a “mixed religion blog.” Really? Mixed religions? Is this how you would understand this blog site, to be a mixing of religions? Is one of . . . . Continue Reading »
Thomas S. Hibbs explains why Ken Starr, the former independent counsel whose report led to the impeachment of Bill Clinton, was recently chosen to be the new president of Baylor University : Defying expectations about what the search committee was up to, this election of Judge Starr as . . . . Continue Reading »
Thoughts from Pastor Larry Peters.When I became a man, I gave up childish ways – oh, did you think that was me talking?? If you knew me, you would laugh at the audacity of me saying “I’m all grown up.” My family would laugh, for sure. I wish I could say them with some shred of . . . . Continue Reading »
Subscribe
Latest Issue
Support First Things
