Those who believe ritual and ceremony are meaningless have never watched the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldiers in Arlington Cemetery. This article by Sarah Kaufman on the soldiers who perform this duty–the precision of their marching, the seams of
If postmodernists are right in saying that there are no absolutes of truth or morality, how can they function? The answer, according to both the masses and philosophers such as Richard Rorty, is pragmatism. Just do what “works.” Don’t worry about what is true or
Stephen Pearstein profiles Sal Kahn, who teaches math via YouTube videos, making the case that online technology may soon make traditional schools obsolete: If education moves to a teaching model in which students learn through online tutorials, exercises and evaluations created by a handful of
J. B. Cheaney writes for World and for children. With fellow children’s lit author Emily Whitten, she has a blog entitled Redeemed Reader | Kids books. Culture. Christ. They discuss kiddy-lit, yes, but also lots of other things, from homeschooling to our current cultural condition. Anyway, they
A $2 million study of the priest child abuse scandal, paid for in part by the Roman Catholic Church, takes the politically-correct position that homosexuality had nothing to do with it. Louie Verrecchio, himself a Catholic, disagrees, based on the report’s own data: On May
The movie that took the top prize at Cannes is entitled The Tree of Life. Most critics laud the beauty of its scenes from nature but were puzzled by it all. But Rev. Robert Barron, priest and theology professor at the University of St. Mary of
On Sunday, Pastor Douthwaite at our church gave one of the best comments on the Harold Camping fiasco. From his sermon on John 14: Thomas and Philip didn’t quite understand all that Jesus was saying. They ask questions. Their knowledge isn’t quite right or complete.
Anthony Sacramone reflects on the Harold Camping non-rapture phenomenon, including some warnings about how Christians often get caught up in a cult of personality: You might be saying to yourself, “Sure, a buncha fundy, dispensationalist cranks with clever marketing skills. Tough luck on their ignorant,
Thanks to Joe Carter for posting this commencement address (which he never gave) by the late media scholar Neil Postman. Read the whole thing, but here are some excerpts that set forth the basic paradigm: I want to tell you about two groups of people
Harold Camping is taking nothing back, even though his prediction of the Rapture happening on May 21 fell flat. Rather, as some of you commenters predicted, he is simply reinterpreting his prediction and holding strong to his other one, that the world will come to
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