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July 2014

July 15, 2014
Chris Mitchell, Wheaton and then Biola professor, C. S. Lewis scholar, and a friend to...
July 15, 2014
The essay's a little over-wrought, especially at the end, but offers a needed defense of the...
July 15, 2014
"An embryo has no rights," declared Ayn Rand, as quoted by William Luse, responding to To...
July 14, 2014
"I aspire to put 'Catholic' before 'conservative' in my life," explains Ramesh Ponnuru, interviewed in America....
July 14, 2014
It must be Anglicans for Helping People Kill Themselves week around the world. South African...
July 14, 2014
"Legalizing doctor-prescribed death is mostly a cause of the well off,  for whom access to quality...
July 11, 2014
Rachel Maddow is right about buffer zones, whose imposition around abortionists the Supreme Court recently...
July 11, 2014
Australian judge says incest may no longer be a taboo, reports the Daily Telegraph, and the...
July 10, 2014
Her brother, says Masha Gessen, former head of the Moscow office of US Radio Liberty,...
July 10, 2014
The papers from the 2014 Orientale Lumen conference, by Kallistos Ware, Father Robert Taft, S.J.,...
July 10, 2014
Apparent good news for writers and others on the cranky end of the personality scale:...
July 09, 2014
In Broken Families, Broken Words, I quoted C. S. Lewis's insight into what happens when...
July 09, 2014
“When . . . you have killed a word you have also, as far as in you lay,...
July 09, 2014
Leah Lebresco mentions an attempt to find a more readable Bible (physically readable, that is)....
July 08, 2014
A friend, writing in an e-mail string lamenting the liberalization of the Anglo-Catholic movement of...
July 07, 2014
R. Menachem Mendel Schneerson, the last Lubavitcher Rebbe and leader of the Chabad movement, who died...
July 07, 2014
Do not, says Derek Thompson in The Atlantic:, freak out: a huge percentage of young...
July 07, 2014
The Continuing Mysteries of the Aleppo Codex, from The Tablet. The codex, "the perfect copy...
July 06, 2014
The Telegraph's sub-editor chose the provocative headline 'Paedophilia is natural and normal for males' with only...
July 03, 2014
Filmmaker Scott Derrickson on Horror, Faith, Chesterton and His New Movie, by Steven Greydanus, from...
July 02, 2014
Tired of the unfashionable traditional outfits,  which can be "intimidating," they've adopted "the mismatched, sweetly-scruffy...
July 02, 2014
In yesterday's Readings, I gave the link to the Australian writer R. J. Stove's conversion...
July 01, 2014
One doesn't want to encourage easy cynicism about politicians, but they make it hard. From...
July 01, 2014
Let Them Eat Cash, from the New York Times. Though many people think that simply...
July 01, 2014
One appreciates the precision. Some years after the 1968 student riots at Columbia University, the philosopher...
July 01, 2014
This one is more funny peculiar than funny amusing. "Well you better decide, miss. Hand...

June 2014

June 30, 2014
In this morning's readings, I mentioned an article on the need for children to play...
June 30, 2014
Why Free Play Is the Best Summer School, by Jessica Leahy, from The Atlantic. A "Well,...
June 30, 2014
“This may be a consequence of me being American," explained Bristol University's Dr. David Glowacki,...
June 29, 2014
Travelling a few days ago, I stopped at a truck stop at which I'd stopped...
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