My pal Steven Hayward (of the American Enterprise Institute) has a funny—and telling—blog entry over at The Corner. Apparently Michael Schlesinger of the University of Illinois, one of the big global warming scientists, is mad at a NY Times reporter for reporting that Copenhagen . . . . Continue Reading »
Ecumenical dialogue is important. One problem in discussions between Christians has been the failure to recognize that each group quotes different Biblical authors. We all know that Paul is a Protestant, for example, but few recognize that Paul himself can be divided between early Paul . . . . Continue Reading »
Some of my favourite hymns are Advent hymns. No, not the Christmas songs that fill the malls and airwaves around this time of year, but the Advent hymns that fill us with a sense of expectation at both comings of the Messiah. One of the very best has to be Saviour of the Nations, Come. The Latin . . . . Continue Reading »
At Christmas, we think –- we, Americans who say we are Christians –- we deserve a break from the things we do every day. We deserve a rest. We deserve to sleep on the sofa, and to have a big meal, and then to sleep on the sofa again, and watch a parade or some football, or whatever it is . . . . Continue Reading »
Bioethicist Art Caplan has weighed in against my Weekly Standard column. But he misses, or at least, fails to address, the primary point of the column. From his blog:Wesley Smith has a new column out, in which he inappropriately uses the case in Belgium of Rom Houben to argue that . . . . Continue Reading »
So my friend Carl Scott has this very interesting reaction to the report that some Democrats are seriously considering an organized opposition to funding the surge in Afghanistan: “My initial reaction to that report was repugnance, but having thought a bit more, and about how uneasy . . . . Continue Reading »
When our hard copy of Touchstone arrived in the mail, my wife told me that I had to read John Granger’s article on the theology behind the Twilight series. The article is titled “Mormon Vampires in the Garden of Eden,” and it is now online here.Granger gives us a reading of these . . . . Continue Reading »
I am hearing some back stage grumbling that I included Terri Schiavo in my Weekly Standard article about the Rom Houben situation when they had different neurological conditions. There is no question in my mind that Terri was not in a locked in state and that Houben is. But so what? I was not . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been very interested that much of the reacton to the Rom Houben case—the man misdiagnosed for 23 years as being unconscious—ultimately gets back to Terri Schiavo. Indeed, she remains so much with us that every time we hear about the newest “miraculous” awakening, we . . . . Continue Reading »
The USA didn’t participate in Kyoto because Al Gore signed an agreement allowing the USA to be bound by carbon dioxide emission cuts, but not China and India—this despite a unanimous vote in the US Senate beforehand opposing such a proposal. You see, the impossibility . . . . Continue Reading »
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