It would take too long to list the myriad composers who have set to music the Magnificat of Mary, as found in Luke 1:46-55. J. S. Bach’s is perhaps the best known of the baroque settings, while, of the modern English-language versifications, Timothy Dudley-Smith’s Tell Out My Soul . . . . Continue Reading »
[Note: Every Friday on First Thoughts we host heated, half-serious, half-cocked arguments about some aspect of pop culture. Today’s theme is the best television shows of the past ten years. Have a suggestion for a topic? Send them to me at jcarter@firstthings.com ] Over the past ten years . . . . Continue Reading »
The one thing most moderns know about Eve is that she was naked. They have some notion that there was a talking snake, a tree, and some problem, but nobody is quite sure what the problem was.Evidently God got really mad because Eve ate an apple . . . or something.What does Eve have to do with . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things senior editor David Goldman recently appeared on CNBC’s Larry Kudlow show to talk about the dollar, gold, interest rates, and unemployment. Part I (Goldman’s segment begins at the 8:09 mark.) Part II . . . . Continue Reading »
First Things editor Joseph Bottum appeared PBS Newshour with Jim Lehrer to discuss President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize speech. As Joseph says, the speech was “incoherent” yet “a very American speech.” Watch the video or read the transcript on the PBS website. . . . . Continue Reading »
The always brilliant Philip Hamburger has an article in the last issue of the Columbia Law Review called “Beyond Protection” that deserves serious attention. It opens: Do foreign terrorists have rights under American law? And can they be prosecuted under such law? These questions may . . . . Continue Reading »
Prominent Calvinist theologian R.C. Sproul refused to sign the Manhattan Declaration on the grounds, he now explains , that it assumes that the Catholic Church preaches the gospel. Indeed, he explains, it was born of the same impulse that produced the various statements of Evangelicals and . . . . Continue Reading »
It seems that the question of presuppositionalism vs evidentialism does get people, well, excited. The presupps don’t like being told they are taking a “leap of faith” and the evids don’t like being told that their work is insufficient. My question goes to the . . . . Continue Reading »
The first thing this AM, I posted a warning about the potential of a Draconian population control tyranny being imposed on the world by global warming hysterics. And now—how timely—the idea is pushed from Canada, of all places. A writer in the Financial Post claims that . . . . Continue Reading »
In two segments:http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1354763290&play=1 . . . . Continue Reading »
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