Happy Tuesday! Here’s what we have for you today: Maureen Mullarkey promotes a Christmas quiz . Peter Leithart is reading about: the desire for glory, the Ukraine , political judgments , Augustine and just war , Starcraft , violence , and the dance of history . Dr. Boli is running a caption . . . . Continue Reading »
The Public Religion Research Institute has just released a survey about American attitudes toward Christmas. The highlights: A plurality of those surveyed favored merchants’ use of the generic “Happy Holidays” greeting rather than the more explicit “Merry Christmas.” . . . . Continue Reading »
Some years ago, I taught a Sunday School class of third- and fourth-graders. One Sunday, they learned the story told in Luke 4 of Jesus’ rejection at Nazareth. We talked about how Jesus’ quotation of Isaiah 61—“the Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me . . . ”—was an . . . . Continue Reading »
The Arminian Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism Roland Boer, Political Theology The Rhyme of History: Lessons of the Great War Margaret MacMillan, Brookings Institution Our Diurnal Civilization Ribbon Farm Lux, Lumen, and the Lights of Science Alan Wall, Fortnightly Review “Poetry . . . . Continue Reading »
The book of Genesis does not give an ultimate explanation of the origin of evil, for evil is at its heart not explicable or intelligible, just as darkness is by its nature not visible. It stems not from a positive presence but from an absence, not a reason but a form of unreason: a failure, a lack, . . . . Continue Reading »
Three events this past fall suggest the need to grapple with the nature of populism again, especially religious populism and its relationship to renewal and the life of the mind. While each of these events deal with different slices of Christianity (Pentecostal, Evangelical, and Catholic), they all . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Monday! I hope you had a good weekend. Over at Postmodern Conservative , we have a discussion of Strauss, Burke, and Lawler —and Pete Spiliakos indulges in some pop culture writing . What Peter Leithart is reading about: baptism , anti-government toys , maps , biblical theology , Randy . . . . Continue Reading »
So Paul Gottfried has written a long and fascinating comment on what I said about the Strauss-Burke conference. I think he confuses somewhat my own view with my sumary of Strauss’s, and everywhere he thinks I’m saying what Strauss didn’t, I think he’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Two old stories, but I just saw them, about a priest in the Bronx with unusual but attractive expressions of his calling: as a grower of hops and a provider of work making fashionable clothes. He also keeps bees for honey. Here is Brad Miner of the Catholic Thing on Father O’Connor . . . . . Continue Reading »
Church Realignment and the Search for Greener Grass Alan F. H. Wisdom, Juicy Ecumenism Turkey’s Glorious Hat Revolution Kaya Genç, Los Angeles Review of Books Commies for Christ Nathan Schneider, New Inquiry Communion for the Remarried: What’s at Stake Ed Peters, In the Light of . . . . Continue Reading »
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