Barbara Coombs Lee, head honcho at the assisted suicide advocacy group Compassion and Choices, has written a column in the Huffington Post that lies about me. She doesn’t mention my name, perhaps because that would permit people to look me up and find out for themselves about whether . . . . Continue Reading »
I’m intrigued by the discussion about the Christian’s role in politics being carried on by Frank, Jared, Matthew, Doug Wilson, and Dr. Beckwith. My own sympathies shift back and forth depending on whose post I’m reading; they are all very convincing. While I don’t want to . . . . Continue Reading »
From the very outset, the term ‘culture wars’ was misleading. Not that it wasn’t apropos — for, indeed, as all could see, there were different cultures contending over not just authority but power in America, many cultures in one manner but, in another, at rock bottom, only . . . . Continue Reading »
According to a Washington Post editorial, ” Open to Vouchers? ” Michelle Rhee, the head of the Washington, DC public education system recently testified before Congress that “she could not in good conscience tell a parent today to put his or her child in a traditional [Washington, . . . . Continue Reading »
There is an old saying: You can drag a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. I think this aphorism is relevant to Obamacare’s prescription that each of us be required legally to buy health insurance—and perhaps even face jail—for refusing to do so and pay the . . . . Continue Reading »
Frank’s argument that “Government is reformed when men are first reformed” is persuasive, and I doubt that anyone could seriously disagree with it. I was all prepared to raise the issue of Acts 16 and Paul’s strategic use of his Roman citizenship, but . . . . Continue Reading »
I read Doug and Dr. Beckwith here, with Dr. Beckwith amening our radical Presbyterian homeboy, and it all seems very reasonable and humane.Then I open my Bible this morning to Act 26, and I’m reading there about Paul who — as Doug rightly pointed out at his blog — preached the . . . . Continue Reading »
Meta-links, Ben Myers has a bunch of links to good reading. Jews in uniform ... outside Israel. A warning to the West. Georgia on Russia and the Ukraine. On fasting and the spiritual life. On Ms Dunn and the Mao thing. A physicist on the brain. The story behind a song. Finding evil in gender, heh. . . . . Continue Reading »
The talented Matthew Alderman made a comment on my post about redesigning the layout of First Things . He had some good ideas, but along the way, he mentioned one of the all-time great designs for a magazine: the art-nouveau journal Ver Sacrum from the late 1890s: And it reminded me of an idea . . . . Continue Reading »
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