As an English major I cringed at some of the recommended rhymes, but this advice is definitely right: “One thing in your song should always be on fire, be it our heart, our souls, this generation . . . Something needs to be in flames.” (h/t Colin Gormley ) We were reminded of this . . . . Continue Reading »
On last night’s episode of Downton Abbey, we heard the unfamiliar Catholic slur “left-footer.” Series creator Julian Fellowes—-himself an occasional target of anti-Catholicism —-has really outdone himself this time. Mackerel-snapper, sure. But left-footer? What could . . . . Continue Reading »
You thought there couldn’t be a law and religion angle to today’s news—-fascinating for us history nerds—-that archaeologists have discovered the mortal remains of Richard III beneath a parking lot in Leicester ? Think again. Plans are underway to re-inter the bones in . . . . Continue Reading »
Western Pennsylvania-area friends and readers: I’ll be giving a talk at Grove City College this coming Thursday evening, with the title “Between Twitter and the New York Times .” I’ll be taking up the challenges to speaking honesty and well when cultural, . . . . Continue Reading »
Beck Hansen. Stage name: just “Beck”. Avant-garde musician Beck Hansen recently produced a new “album,” Song Reader , that was not released in stores or via mp3 files. Instead, he released the score and asked his fans and other musicians to upload their interpretations of the . . . . Continue Reading »
William Doino Jr. on the Christian dreams of Roberto Clemente : When baseball legend Roberto Clemente died in a plane crash in 1972, on a mission of mercy to victims of a Nicaraguan earthquake, the world not only lost a great man, but someone with extraordinary dreams. Well before his passing, . . . . Continue Reading »
In “ Simple Justice ,” published today on the excellent Public Discourse website, Notre Dame’s Richard Garnett argues, persuasively to my mind, for public funding of schools outside the public school’s taxpayer-funded near-monopoly, a monopoly supported by the assumption that . . . . Continue Reading »
Apart from office, there is no obligation to obey another person. There is no natural right for one person to rule over someone else. Only office , and not the mere possession of power, can confer authority. Continue Reading »
We have already discussed in a preliminary fashion the impact of the regulations proposed Friday on religiously motivated businesses , as well as whether the way in which the cost of contraception is shifted from religious organizations to other parties ought to relieve the consciences of . . . . Continue Reading »
Recasting an Agenda for Peace Leslie Vinjamuri, Immanent Frame The Problem of Good Nathaniel Schmucker, Tolle Lege An Iron-Clad Proof of God Rabbi Adam Jacobs, Huffington Post Suffering in Early Protestantism Lauren F. Winner, Books & Culture Culture and Ethnicity in Orthodoxy John R. P. . . . . Continue Reading »
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