The French writer Vercors (Jean Bruller) begins his novel, You Shall Know Them , just after Douglas Templemore injects his infant son with strychnine chlorhydrate. Although anguished by the killing, the father had planned the act even before the child had been sired. It was his attempt to save the . . . . Continue Reading »
Two Canadian parents aiming to exempt their children from a state-run religious education program are seeking recourse to the Supreme Court of Canada. The Ethics and Religious Culture curriculum, developed under Jean Charest’s government, is mandatory in both public and private schools, . . . . Continue Reading »
After 160 years, St. Vincent’s Hospital, the last Catholic general hospital in New York City, has shut its doors for good. As we’ve said before —it’s a sad, sad thing. . . . . Continue Reading »
If we have souls, so do chimps , Jane Goodall claims in an article in The Spectator . Her evidence is thin: At Gombe, she also recorded the chimps performing what she calls a ‘rain dance’, whereby the creatures noisily run around bashing into the trees and each other in response to . . . . Continue Reading »
Happy Arbor Day! In honor of Arbor day Time has a list of the top ten coolest “trees” of all time. How the Keebler elves’ tree ranked higher than Tolkien’s Treebeard is beyond me. Also among the top ten was Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree, a tree that was the topic . . . . Continue Reading »
Speaking about the value of catechism...Kevin DeYoung, pastor of University Reformed Church in East Lansing, MI, and one of the bloggers here at Evangel, recently agreed to an interview about his new book The Good News We Almost Forgot: Rediscovering the Gospel in a 16th Century Catechism, which is . . . . Continue Reading »
Although it now bears the signature of President Barack Obama, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act remains a source of consternation across party lines. For those still engaged in partisan politics in the ongoing health-care debate, there may be something to be gleaned from Jewish . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . in loving this new issue (really, every issue) of PERSPECTIVES ON POLITICAL SCIENCE—America’s leading political and philosophical journal. There’s a symposium on WHAT IS POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY? (the book by Strauss, of course). It includes contributions by Rafe Major, Nasser . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m like most. The latest wave of revelations about clerical sexual abuse demoralizes me. I’m not wavering in my conviction that the one true and apostolic communion of the saints subsists in the Catholic Church. I think of what St Paul says: “We have this treasure in earthen . . . . Continue Reading »
[Bob Dylan] is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I. — Joni Mitchell , giving me a soundbite that I can use to stir up the FT Dylan Lovers Club. I find it fascinating that the . . . . Continue Reading »
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