In today’s New York Times food section there’s a recipe for the good life. I know that’s a tacky opening sentence, but I couldn’t resist. John T. Edge reports from Hemingway, South Carolina on a family that makes old fashioned BBQ. As in: Ten butterflied pig . . . . Continue Reading »
See this interesting post at The American Catholic: ” Supreme Court Justices and Religion ”. To ask some questions is to answer them, and via Commonweal , I see that UCLA history professor emeritus Joyce Appleby has penned a lovely exercise in . . . . Continue Reading »
The current national health care plans being written in the Congress would require every one of us to purchase private health insurance. From the USA Today editorial supporting the idea:In a nation where 46 million people are uninsured, it is one of the most direct routes toward universal, or near . . . . Continue Reading »
At the American Scene , Conor Friedersdorf wants to know . . . . . Continue Reading »
From the Denver Post : Nancy R. Howell, professor of theology at Saint Paul School of Theology, a United Methodist seminary in Kansas City, Mo., said theological reflection on human and animal natures had been stunted by inattention to recent developments in animal-behavior science. “Deeper . . . . Continue Reading »
Helen Rittelmeyer, one of our bloggers at Postmodern Conservative , has written a compelling essay at Doublethink titled ” Toward a Bioethics of Love .” Rather than building an argument on abstraction, she brings—in true Burkean fashion—her own real-world experience to bear in . . . . Continue Reading »
I have been hearing from SHS subscribers that they are not receiving the posts. Sorry about that. The best remedy is to resubscribe. Just hit the “blog rss” link directly to the right of this text, and then hit the subscribe link where indicated. And, of course, new . . . . Continue Reading »
The Center for Bioethics and Culture is distributing the documentary Lines That Divide: The Great Embryonic Stem Cell Debate, about embryonic stem cell research. From the film’s summary:First, the viewer is introduced to the basic science of stem cells and how they are gathered for . . . . Continue Reading »
Here are a couple of excerpts from a brilliant decoding of Balzac’s esotericism, accomplished by Scott Sprenger, a colleague of mine at BYU. Consider the applications to the analysis of Straussianism, and to a post-Straussian postmodern critique of modernity: The fundamental problem that . . . . Continue Reading »
Sally Thomas brings you “Burnt Offering” Barbeque Sauce . . . . . Continue Reading »
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