This past Saturday, the 2.2 million strong Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod announced the re-election of Rev. Dr. Matthew C. Harrison as President. President Harrison was first elected in 2010. The same convention which elected him also adopted new policies for the election of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The King’s College “can seek perhaps no better model than Carl F. H. Henry, “ on whom Gregory A. Thornbury, the recently-announced incoming president of the King’s College, “happens to be an expert and happens to have just written a book.” says Gene Fant . . . . Continue Reading »
“Medicalizing our social problems isn’t healthy. It undermines personal responsibility and renders important character-building virtues such as self-restraint and discipline hopelessly passé,” says Wesley J. Smith in today’s column . “Lowering expectations for . . . . Continue Reading »
Yes, here is the great question that has gripped me about the Egyptian coup; would there have been democracy tomorrow if not a coup of the democratically elected Islamists yesterday? Ken Masugi asks, “Was the anti-Morsi coup in Egypt justified on liberal and democratic grounds?”He . . . . Continue Reading »
Faith Lights Life George Weigel, National Review Deadlines Meghan O’Rourke, New York Times The Rise of the Machines Meredith Hindley, Humanities Without Words to Describe Helen Alvaré, Public Discourse Localism, Globalization, and Moral Progress Dylan Pahman, Ethika Politika . . . . Continue Reading »
Get ready to shout “Amen!” because this fall Oxygen will air Preachers of L.A. , a new reality series about six pastors in the Los Angeles area. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml8bQDnnkKk Here’s what the network has to say about its new series. Preachers of L.A. gives a . . . . Continue Reading »
Jean wrote this morning. I haven’t gotten her permission to post her astute comments. But I will mention a couple of points: Jean is right that it’s pretty misleading to lump LOCHNER with ROE and DRED SCOTT as substantive due process evildoing. The issue in LOCHNER is something over . . . . Continue Reading »
In my last essay at First Things , I echoed the words of Pope Benedict writing about the pastoral care of the homosexual person by saying, “only what is true can ultimately be pastoral.” Rev. Wojciech Giertych , O.P., the Theologian of the Papal Household, last week echoed the words . . . . Continue Reading »
So having read Bob’s post and Carl’s very thorough and elegant response, let me offer a somewhat different view on the relationship between the progessive TR and our (new kind of) progressive Justice Anthony Kennedy. So TR and TK are both about constitutional development, that’s . . . . Continue Reading »
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