I have been leading a study of John’s Gospel at church. Something interesting occurred to me yesterday as we went through the fourth chapter.Nicodemus, who is described as a Jewish ruler, comes to see Jesus. The gentile official, who hopes for his son to be healed, comes to see Jesus.The woman . . . . Continue Reading »
Several years ago Bruce Bawer (While Europe Slept) published in The Wilson Quarterly a fascinating article, The Other Sixties, about that brief era wedged between the ostensibly mindless conformity of the 1950s and the turbulent “Sixties,” with its drug culture, angry anti-war protests, . . . . Continue Reading »
In Christianity Today , Mollie Ziegler Hemingway discusses the fact that many of those who want marriage equality do not want fidelity : Same-sex marriage advocates frequently ask, “How would gay marriage affect your marriage?” The question is posed rhetorically, as if marriage is a . . . . Continue Reading »
No personage stands closer to the center of the American foreign policy establishment than the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, and it is something of a milestone when the current holder of this office, Richard Haas, writes in the May 12 Financial Times, “Goodbye to Europe as a . . . . Continue Reading »
In the latest issue of First Things , Mary Eberstadt examines the gluttony of pornographic consumption in America: As the impressively depressing cover story “America the Obese” in the May issue of The Atlantic serves to remind us all, the weight-gain epidemic in the United States and the . . . . Continue Reading »
What do you do if you’re a third-rate beauty pageant desperate for attention? If you’re the Donald Trump owned Miss USA contest you stick with a winning formula: ask beautiful woman culture war questions : Rima Fakih (Miss Michigan), a Lebanese immigrant who told pageant organizers her . . . . Continue Reading »
Jewish leaders remain unpersuaded by chief of staff Rahm Emanuel’s mea culpa for “screwed up messaging” about Israel:The Obama administration has “screwed up the messaging” about its support for Israel over the past 14 months, and it will take “more than one month . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the junior fellows passed on the link to a Republican congressional candidate’s comments on her primary opponent’s six children : With little to distinguish her on issues or experince with her opponent, lawyer Keith Rothfus, she has settled on making the case that he has . . . . Continue Reading »
HBO tells us “You Don’t Know Jack,” referring to Jack Kevorkian, played by Al Pacino in HBO’s recent movie of the same name, or as some might call it, a hagiography of Dr. Death. Kevorkian came to notoriety in the 1990’s as a leading advocate of assisted suicide . . . . Continue Reading »
I warned and warned—here at SHS, on radio talk shows, in speeches—that the real dirty work of Obamacare would be done quietly, behind the scenes, by an army of faceless bureaucrats who will be directed to add the devil in the details of the bill. Moreover, I prophesied, the bad . . . . Continue Reading »
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