In church, when you seem people staring at their smart phones, they aren’t necessarily texting, surfing, or playing games. They may well be using their Bible apps, allowing them to read the Scriptures and follow along with the text of a sermon on their mobile
A British newspaper reports that American efforts to stop ISIL are failing, as ISIL continues to win victory after victory against the Iraqi army and Kurdish rivals in Syria. The airstrikes are just not working. Even with American air support, the Iraqi army keeps running
Seventeen-year-old Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan won the Nobel Peace Prize. When she was 15, she was shot in the head by the Taliban for saying that girls should be allowed to go to school. She recovered and responded by launching a world-wide movement to
Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses the doom and gloom many Christians feel about the church’s prospects in contemporary culture. He disagrees that things are that bad and says that there are two ways the church grows: by biology and by “attraction, not argument.” He goes on
The ice caps are supposed to be melting. But the ice in Antarctica is at record levels. And the ice at the North Pole, after declining for awhile, is back to normal levels. So reports a British newspaper, the Register. I’m struck, though, by a
Terrorism, the shaky economy, and now ebola–these things make us feel insecure. Chris Cillizza says that other items in the news–the Secret Service failures, the controversy over the Ferguson police, the rise of ISIL in Iraq despite our military’s prowess–adds a further level of insecurity,
Rod Dreher describes what happened at a conference sponsored by First Things on the future of religion in the public square. In the course of doing so, he describes a current controversy among conservative Catholics: The “Murrayites” believe that Catholicism is compatible with American-style political
We have racism (1932), sexism (1936), classism (1971), speciesism (1975), heterosexism (1979), ableism (1981). (See this discussion of “ism.”) Now someone is proposing “borderism,” for discriminating against people based on what side of a border they were born in. (more…)
Paradox of nature: a sub-atomic particle has been discovered that acts like both matter and anti-matter. (more…)
Ross Douthat has a rather brilliant essay in which he considers whether the church is facing a new pagan society, as in the first century. He thinks not, but he notices that some of the hostility against Christianity is very similar to the resentment against
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