Samuel Smith’s thoughts on our recent post about study of the arts being good in itself, from his comment and his maplemountain blog site: Art does not have to have any “practical” utility to be of value. If it is good, it has value that
Samuel Smith’s thoughts on our recent post about study of the arts being good in itself, from his comment and his maplemountain blog site: Art does not have to have any “practical” utility to be of value. If it is good, it has value that
Avery Cardinal Dulles, after surveying Roman Catholic teaching through the ages about who can be saved gives this bottom line answer: Who, then, can be saved? Catholics can be saved if they believe the Word of God as taught by the Church and if they
Canada has “human rights” commissions that seem bent on shutting down human rights. At least the right of free speech. The board is currently prosecuting an editor for publishing the infamous cartoons of Muhammed. Other targets include a Catholic publication for upholding the church’s teaching
According to pro-life activist Gerard V. Bradley is John McCain. McCain is not the only pro-life candidate in the Republican field. There are — and were — others. Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is rightly regarded as a champion of the unborn. He was no doubt
I invited the Patrick Henry College students from Wisconsin over to our place for Johnsonville brats and to watch the Packers play the Giants for a slot in the Super Bowl. We had to console each other after a suspenseful, nerve-wracking game. But, as I
Scientists have generated mature human embryos from cloned adult skin cells. The scientists say they have no interest in bringing a cloned human being to term, which seems to placate people and the law. But it is the practice of destroying these embroyos that is
As I mentioned, I have become a fan of Life on Mars, a British mystery series shown here on BBC America on Tuesday nights. The premise is that Sam Tyler, a detective from our day, went into a coma, whereupon he finds himself as a
Archeologists in Jerusalem have discovered a seal from a family mentioned in the Bible. See here and here. On the seal is inscribed the name of “Temech,” described in Nehemiah 7:55 as one of the families who returned from exile to rebuild Jerusalem.
Republicans are all pining for a new Reagan and finding that the various candidates fall short of the great man’s conservatism. And yet, as Victor Davis Hanson points out, Reagan himself would not measure up to the purists’ Reaganite standards. He granted an actual amnesty
The distinguished journalist Uwe Siemon-Netto has written an article for an Asian publication on the huge appeal in Asian cultures of Johann Sebastian Bach. The article includes specific accounts of people converting to Christianity through his music: Maruyama is passionate about Bach – she attributes
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