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A selection of recent articles on this topic
God and Imaginary Numbers
Impossible, irrational, delusionary, absurd, untrustworthy, fictitious, imaginary: You can’t read much about religion today without encountering these…
Why Do the Heathen Rage?
An extended dialogue between biologist Richard Dawkins and Christian apologist Alister McGrath¯originally shot for Dawkins’ BBC documentary…
Land of Lincoln: A Review
In the elementary schools of the American Midwest, Abraham Lincoln has always enjoyed a good press. Schoolchildren…
A Criterion for Compromises
Our friends over at the New Criterion have put out a big anthology including the editors’ choice…
The Malling of Mecca
It’s big. No, I mean really BIG. And I’m not talking about the Burj Dubai , which…
How to Pray
As a Catholic growing up in the years before Vatican II, I knew very few Protestants, much…
The Aug-Sept Issue of First Things Is Online!
Another day, another dollar. Well, actually, another month, another issue of First Things . And the cost…
The Relevance of Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
“Obscure” hardly begins to describe the obscurity of the German-American thinker Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy (1888¯1973). Though never a…
Antinomies of Limbo: Some Historical Milestones
Speaking only on my own behalf here, I was quite struck by the carefully balanced sobriety of…
Religion and Economics III: The Hoary Objections to Capitalism
We keep pulling¯out of bleak embers¯the objections to the American economic system that were already cold thirty…
Donate Now or We’re Calling UPS
As you may or may not remember, last week was Pledge Week . This week (or what’s…
Religion and the Common Good
Sooner or later, every teacher hears the same old joke about the philosophy student and his dad.…
Put on Your Body Armor
Concerning yesterday’s decision in Gonzales v. Carhart , a few preliminary observations based on a very quick…
Free Will and Physics
John Rose wrote here yesterday concerning Einstein’s attempted reconciliation of complete physical determinism and human free will,…
The End of the Irish Troubles, a Moment of Transcendence, and Sacramentum Caritatis
Taoiseach . I’ve been listening to the way the Irish pronounce it, and you’re safe in going…
