Summer intern Katherine Devorak’s On the Square reflects on her Fuller Seminary class, which “empowers and equips a new generation of artists and church leaders to effectively integrate worship, theology, and the arts.” The class instilled a love of the Church’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Peter J. Leithart traces the decline of traditional denominationalism in today’s column : A 2009 Barna survey found that denominational commitments have gone squishy in mainline Protestant churches, and Evangelicals don’t fare much better than the rest. After a similar . . . . Continue Reading »
As Matt Cantirino notes today, Christianity Today has posted about a new list, published by the real-estate blog, Movoto, of the “saintliest” cities in the United States . Can you guess number one on the list? Bet you can’t. It’s Babylon on the Hudson–and my home . . . . Continue Reading »
Someone recently told me that he was going to Detroit. I felt sorry for him, knowing that last trips to Detroit, driving form the Cleveland area, had been through areas that looked as devastated as anything seen in post WWII photos. I had not read of improvement, in fact of . . . . Continue Reading »
Is New York America’s Holiest City? Melissa Steffan, Gleanings Paper Keys and George Tyrrell Anthony Esolen, Catholic Thing Missing Billy Graham’s Role with Eisenhower Mark Tooley, Juicy Ecumenism Young Evangelicals Are Getting High RVD, Christian Pundit Meeting the Hasids Corinna . . . . Continue Reading »
A recent report by the Public Research Institute and the Brookings Institution attempts to present a clearer picture of American religious orientation. One of the things it explores, as Lauren Markoe notes at Religion News Service , is differing views among Americans as to what being . . . . Continue Reading »
So this Acculturated review of THE BLING RING makes it sound pretty interesting, despite being directed and co-written by Sophia Coppola, who also wrote and directed LOST IN TRANSLATION, which many regard as one of the most criminally over-rated movies ever. But the interest will depend, I guess, . . . . Continue Reading »
Tim Powers In our August/September issue , Randy Boyagoda expresses a fatigue that many avid readers can relate to: “I’m sick of Flannery O’Connor. I’m also sick of Walker Percy, G. K. Chesterton, J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and . . . . Continue Reading »
In his On the Square today , Russell E. Saltzman considers the fickleness of a member of the rising generation in the Internet Age: For the generation ahead of him, Facebook is still the social media choice. But his generation (I remember that phrase being used a lot) doesn’t like . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s column , Victor Lee Austin reflects on the proliferation of ultrasound technology: Every young expectant couple I know today, without exception, when they have a prenatal visit, hope they will get to see the baby. Every baby’s photo book today has a sonogram for its first . . . . Continue Reading »
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