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Is There a Crisis in Conservative Protestantism?
In October, I had the pleasure of attending both the lecture and subsequent seminar given for First Things…
Brush Up Your Shakespeare
Last year I posted in this space a reading plan of my own devising for working through all…
Rights Talk, Majority Tyranny, and the Harms We “See”
Continuing arguments over gun rights and violence brought to mind Tocqueville’s observation that he knew “no country…
Christians, the State Department, and Genocide
At USA Today, columnist Kirsten Powers writes about the State Department’s apparent reluctance to refer to ISIS’s…
Obama, Fukuyamian
At The Atlantic, Peter Beinart explains why Obama doesn’t think that terrorism is a threat to our way…
Language in Time
The overall aim of Rowan Williams’s recent The Edge of Words is to explore what the phenomenon of…
Marriage and Poverty—The New Consensus
I had not previously been aware of the “AEI/Brookings Working Group on Poverty and Opportunity,” which brings…
Prayer at Winter Solstice
Our contributor and next years’ honoree for the Annual Poetry Reading, Dana Gioia, was just named California’s Poet…
Fruitful Waste of Time
Melinda Selmys (Slave of Two Masters) knows that TV-watching is “the classic example of ‘wasting time,’” but…
Steph Transcendent
Writing at fivethirtyeight.com, Benjamin Morris argues that Stephen Curry is the three-point revolution. This isn’t just the normal…
Christ of Friday and Sunday
In his stunning exploration of Revelation, A Rebirth of Images, Austin Farrer explains the calendrical arrangement of the…
“For Freedom Set Free”
On the weekend of November 19-21, Notre Dame’s Center for Ethics and Culture hosted its annual Fall…
Momanomics
In her collection of essays on money, Slave of Two Masters, Melinda Selmys devotes several pages to the…
Some Persecuted Minorities Are Funny
Take a look at this clip from a recent episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.…
Shakespeare’s Songs
Late at night in Lady Olivia’s great house in Illyrium, three friends – Sir Toby, the lady’s…
