The winter 2008 issue of the Review of Faith and International Affairs focuses on perspectives on “Islam and Pluralism.” The journal includes a roundtable of responses to A Common Word Between Us and You , the October 2007 letter from Muslim leaders to the Vatican and other Christian . . . . Continue Reading »
Yesterday, First Things board member Prof. Robert P. George, was one of 24 recipients of the Presidential Citizen’s Medal, one of the nation’s highest civilian honors. The medal is awarded to those who have “performed exemplary deeds of service for their country or their fellow . . . . Continue Reading »
A few days ago, Keith Pavlischek drew our attention to Mollie Ziegler’s response to Newsweek ‘s article “The Christian Case for Gay Marriage.” Since then, she’s written two follow-up pieces ( here and here ), and Christianity Today weighed in as well, reminding us that . . . . Continue Reading »
The media usually report the assisted suicide agenda by, basically, printing the proponents’ press releases and pretending that it is objective news. But sometimes, it comes back to bite them, as when the PR is mendacious.Case in point: When a Montana judge legalized assisted suicide, the . . . . Continue Reading »
A day after South Korean immigrant Dong Yun Yoon lost his two young daughters, his wife, and his mother-in-law when a military jet crashed into their house in San Diego, the bereaved man prayed for the well-being of the pilot: “Nobody expected such a horrible thing to happen, especially right . . . . Continue Reading »
December 10, 1948—sixty years ago today—the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was born. Promulgated as the smoke of the death camps still lingered, the document was a stunned world’s attempt to enshrine human rights and dignity, to ensure that such “contempt for human . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Catholic Culture “Diogenes” has picked up on an amusing blunder: According to the official Vatican translation, in a message about the Christian heritage of European culture, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged reflection upon “the ancient roots in which abundant lymph has flowed . . . . Continue Reading »
Remember the outcries late last month when a nineteen-year-old in Florida committed suicide in front of a webcam? “What will this lead to? Where is this headed?” many of us asked. Unfortunately, in Britain, it looks like it’s headed to primetime . . . . . Continue Reading »
Kathryn Tucker, the lawyer for the euphemistically named Compassion and Choices, who won the trial court ruling establishing a right to assisted suicide in Oregon (and I contend, much more) has shown a bit of the real agenda behind the movement. In reacting to the victory, she suggested that the . . . . Continue Reading »
Commenting on the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, Michael Rubin over at National Review got it exactly right : While it’s fashionable to argue that terrorists in Mumbai do not act out of religion, but are simply misguided, the fact of the matter is that they justify their actions in Islam. For . . . . Continue Reading »
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