On the Square Today

Dawn LaValle on Terrence Malick’s latest film :

To the Wonder  startles us into realizing that the world is shot though, positively charged, with presence. Whether that presence is fructifying love or slinking destruction stands as an accusing question throughout the film. The most frightening aspect of all is that it is  our choice  to accept the love that surrounds us, or to keep ourselves destructively closed off from it.

Also today, Elizabeth Scalia explores the use of Scripture in the marriage debate :

For the five or six thousand years preceding the last fifty, no one needed an explicit pronouncement that marriage was an office involving opposite sexes because it seemed obvious. In the last half century, however, human sexual mechanisms have become utilized less for production and more for pleasure.