It won’t look like King Edward I’s Edict of Expulsion in 1290, of course. But the practice of the Jewish religion could be suppressed by law de facto in the United Kingdom. That is where the Jewish Free School case may lead, gradually, by slow erosion . . . . Continue Reading »
Colossians 1:15:He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.Paul articulately asserts the truth of the Incarnation in Colossians 1, but his use of “firstborn” does not mean that there was a time when the Son of God wasn’t (any more than John 3:16’s use . . . . Continue Reading »
This is rich: A pediatrician for a hospital wanting to cut off the life support of a baby because he is seriously disabled—although cognitively fine, as discussed here before—says that the hospitals like to follow what mothers want in cases such as this. From the story:The parents . . . . Continue Reading »
In this case, from the always-interesting economics blogger Megan McArdle : The original compromise, segregating the funds so that the federal subsidy wouldn’t pay for the abortion part, was a transparently ineffective gimmick. How transparently ineffective? If it really was just her money . . . . Continue Reading »
Here Yuval Levin argues that this is precisely what we’re currently witnessing given the Democrat party’s aggressive lurch to the left. Also, our own Peter Lawler points out that, more than ever, Republicans need to clearly and uncompromisingly assert their basic principles, . . . . Continue Reading »
Next April 15, we’re going to have a one-day conference on the general topic of the teaching of American politics. Here are some possible themes: the relationship between civic education and liberal education, the use of literature and film, the heroic approach (Washington, Lincoln, etc.), . . . . Continue Reading »
One of the common complaints against traditional evangelicalism is that it has been held captive by a distinctly Western approach to rationality that eschews mystery and narrative. The central target of this complaint is the “Enlightenment,” with its emphasis on reason to the detriment . . . . Continue Reading »
The New Atlantis, simply one of the best journals out there, is now hosting a new blog called Futurisms which features the writing of Charles Rubin, Ari Schulman, and Adam Keiper. It’s quite a blog that manages to cover a wide spectrum of topics from nanotechnology and nanoethics to . . . . Continue Reading »
My colleague at RIT Sean Sutton has edited a terrific collection of essays called Biotechnology: Our Future as Human Beings and Citizens . Besides some very provocative pieces by Leon Kass and Ronald Bailey, there is a contribution entitled “The Bible and Biotechnology” which very well . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at the linguists’ group blog, Language Log , they’re taking up the school-marm’s rule against starting a sentence with a conjunction. But you already know the rule, of course. And who’s to say the school-marms were wrong? The Bible, as it turns out: This morning I . . . . Continue Reading »
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