Habit of a Lifetime: Why Are Increasing Numbers of Women in Britain Becoming Catholic Nuns?
India Sturgis, The Independent
Killing Tsarnaev Accomplishes Nothing
Daniel Payne, The Federalist
The Moral Case for Snuffing Tsarnaev
Neal Dewing, The Federalist
Preacher with a Paintbrush
David Neff, Christianity Today
New events include a gathering in Turkey with the Ecumenical Patriarch and the 2015 Wilberforce Award ceremony. Continue Reading »
Polygamy is More Popular Than Ever
Samantha Allen, The Daily Beast
A Requiem for the Boy Scouts
Albert Mohler, Jr., albertmohler.com
Ordinary Christian Work
Tim Challies, Tabletalk Magazine
Childless! By Choice!
Heather Wilhelm, Commentary
Imagine receiving a letter telling you that while your insurance company won’t pay for experimental drugs to combat your cancer, they’d be happy to cover lethal drugs to help you die. You want to try to live a little longer, but you're only offered funding to hasten death. This happened to . . . . Continue Reading »
The Washington Post has excelled even its own exacting standards for an uncritical and intellectually bland approach to contemporary moral nonsense. Continue Reading »
This year, on its hundredth anniversary, the Armenian Genocide of 1915 has received unusually prominent and long overdue attention. New, in-depth treatments have appeared from major presses: Thomas de Waal’s Great Catastrophe (Oxford), Eugene Rogan’s The Fall of the . . . . Continue Reading »
The social media world has been aflutter over the possibility that a flight attendant discriminated against a Muslim woman by denying her an unopened can of soda.But a story about the plight of Christians in India hasn’t caused a firestorm in the media. It is fascinating that a racial . . . . Continue Reading »
Meanwhile, in Switerland
Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing
Death Denial
Marc Parry, The Chronicle Review
Decline and Schism in Religion
Ross Douthat, The New York Times
Why Evangelicals Are Having Trouble Finding a Unified Voice in Washington
Sarah Pulliam Bailey, The Washington Post
Last week, Gallup released the results of a poll on the moral acceptability of various behaviors. Specifically, this poll asked people about the morality of over 15 specific issues including abortion, gambling, and polygamy. What was most interesting was the sharp increase in the percentage of people who found doctor assisted suicide “morally acceptable.” In 2013, only 45 percent of Americans found doctor assisted suicide “morally acceptable.” Last week’s poll indicated that percentage had risen to 56 percent. Continue Reading »
From a Donatello exhibition to a high school seminar, here are some upcoming events in New York and around the globe. Continue Reading »
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