Francis Beckwith is back with another book. He has written Politics for Christians: Statecraft as Soulcraft. I’ve not yet had a chance to read it, but this may be the book people have been asking me for as a follow-up to The End of Secularism. I made the negative case against secularism and . . . . Continue Reading »
The beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes transcended its genre to become one of the most enduring works of pop art of the twentieth century. At The Guardian , Nevin Martell explores how it was able to “be authentic in a way that very few cartoons ever are”: The strip’s . . . . Continue Reading »
I don’t like to praise David Brooks because I’m afraid it makes me look middlebrow. But sometimes he nails it. Today’s column is a tentative, perhaps merely arguendo , defense of the old WASP establishment. Sure, Brooks observes, positions of power in America are more open to . . . . Continue Reading »
Touchstone magazine notes that while overall church membership may be increasing, only five of the top twenty-five churches in the nation are growing . The largest church bodies are: 1. The Catholic Church: 68.1 million, up 1.49 percent. 2. Southern Baptist Convention: 16.2 million, down 0.24 . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of Policy Review , Mary Eberstadt argues that we should reconsider the military policy of sending mothers to combat: In November 2009, one of the uglier fruits of the current practice of seeding mothers into the American military burst briefly onto the national stage. Ordered to . . . . Continue Reading »
Pseudonymous history professor Rufus F. remarks on the difficulty we have hearing—really hearing—music that is mediated by digital technology : I’m always amazed to read essays on classical music from the 18th and 19th centuries. The writers, often with no more musical training than . . . . Continue Reading »
Attention EVANGEL Blog crew and anyone who blogs. Extend the reach of your blog by making it an iPhone App and making it available to Kindle users. I just did it with my blog. Justin Taylor pointed me toward Rainsong Media who has done a nice job with the iPhone App version of my blog. The process . . . . Continue Reading »
David Walsh’s The Modern Philosophical Revolution: The Luminosity of Existence, the magisterial concluding volume of a long-gestating trilogy, proposes a radical revaluation of modernity. Whereas Walsh began twenty years ago with the view that modern philosophy was complicit in . . . . Continue Reading »
Doesn’t this conceptual rendering of the new Harry Potter Theme Park look like it was painted by Thomas Kinkade?At first I thought it must be a strange coincidence and that it couldn’t be by the Painter of Light™ since it depicts people in the picture. But then I was looking . . . . Continue Reading »
I became a young-earth creationist in my sophomore year of high school. It was not a scientific decision. I had just become a Christian, and it was clearly taught on the first page of the Bible. I was young and impressionable. I took up the cause with zeal.A teenager who thinks they have the . . . . Continue Reading »
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