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May 07, 2012

A Field Guide to the Baseless Claims and Outrageous Canards of the Liberal-Progressive

Review of The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas, by Jonah Goldberg, (New York, NY: Sentinel, 2012) With proper training, and maybe a bit of experience on the debate team, it’s easy to recognize logical fallacies in an opponent’s argument. Continue Reading...

May 03, 2012

The Inhumane Wendell Berry

“Can one have an off day in giving the Jefferson Lecture (an off week or month in writing it)?” asks Matthew J. Franck in reference to the recent NEH honor afforded to agrarian Wendell Berry. Continue Reading...

May 02, 2012

Charles Colson’s ‘Ecumenism of the Trenches’

“Walter Hooper once said of C.S. Lewis that he was the most truly converted person he had ever met,” says Baptist theologian Timothy George. “The same thing can be justly said of Charles W. Continue Reading...

May 01, 2012

How Climate Change Panic Leads to Forced Sterilizations and Death in India

When it comes to the issue of anthropomorphic climate change, I tend to be “acognostic”—I’m not convinced we even have the cognitive ability to determine whether climate change is occurring, much less whether it can be attributed to human activity. Continue Reading...

April 26, 2012

The Heritage Guide to the Constitution

Our friends at the Heritage Foundation have created an invaluable online tool for learning about the U.S. Constitution: Continue Reading...

April 23, 2012

In Praise of the Book . . . On World Book and Copyright Day

What would our life be without books? Books teach, entertain, encourage and give invaluable perspectives that allow each of us to grow and deepen our life and faith. If we asked every person who will read this blog post about their favorite book, we would get a rich tapestry of stories full of warm memories. Continue Reading...

April 20, 2012

Sergius Bulgakov’s “Religious Materialism” and Spiritual Hope

Yesterday in First Things’ daily “On the Square” column, Matthew Cantirino highlighted Sergius Bulgakov’s theology of relics, recently translated by Boris Jakim. Cantirino writes, Even today, it must be admitted, the subject of relics is an often-overlooked one in theology, and especially in popular apologetics. Continue Reading...

April 19, 2012

Belief in God Strongest in U.S., Israel, and Catholic Countries

A new report about the depth of people’s belief in God reveals vast differences among nations, ranging from 94 percent of people in the Philippines who said they always believed in God, compared to only 13 percent of people in the former East Germany. Continue Reading...

April 19, 2012

How Some Courts and Legal Theorists Misrepresent the Rational Status of Religious Beliefs

While preparing for a book chapter on the topic of political philosophy and religious beliefs, Francis Beckwith “read and reread scores of court cases and academic monographs.” What he discovered is that judges and legal theorists are often embarrassingly ignorant about the rational status of religious beliefs: Continue Reading...

April 11, 2012

How Religion Is Portrayed In Video Games

Danny O’Dwyer of Gamespot has created an interesting video on religion in video games. As a self-described atheist, he examines the reasons why video games “haven’t reached the point where Islam can be portrayed without a suicide bomb.” Continue Reading...

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