Touchstone editor Patrick Reardon on a Scriptural detail that I had never thought about before: “That instant of the Resurrection of Jesus was the most decisive moment in the history of the world. It was the event of deepest importance for every human being who
Congratulations to columnist Kathleen Parker–whom I actually met at a Patrick Henry College journalism event– for winning the Pulitzer Prize. She credits a teacher for starting her on that road: I materialized in James Gasque’s class in March of the school year for reasons that
I remember having to deal with Anthony Flew’s arguments against the existence of God in philosophy class in college. News a few years ago that he had changed his views, to the point of believing that God does exist surprised me and a lot of
The Nebraska legislature has banned abortion after 20 weeks, raising some new legal possibilities for restrictions: Two landmark measures putting new restrictions on abortion became law in Nebraska on Tuesday, including one that critics say breaks with court precedent by changing the legal rationale for
Opus Dei is the Roman Catholic order that has become the bogey-man for paranoid secularists, leftist conspiracy theorists, and Da-Vinci-Code believers. And yet, for all of its alleged conservatism, it seems to be something unknown in medieval Catholicism; namely, an order for lay people. From
Catholic artist and educator David Clayton makes connections between science, aesthetics, classical education, and then, for good measure, liturgy: In excellent his book, Modern Physics and Ancient Faith, describing the consistency between the Faith and the discoveries of science, Stephen M Barr describes the scientific
The complicated Rube-Goldberg chain of unintended consequences with our new health care system may be starting: The new federal health-care law has raised the stakes for hospitals and schools already scrambling to train more doctors. Experts warn there won’t be enough doctors to treat the
Michael Gerson, in a column arguing that Cardinal Ratzinger who later became Pope Benedict actually was the one who (finally, eventually) cracked down on pedophile priests, tossed off an interesting category: It is the consistent temptation of faith leaders — Catholic, Protestant, Muslim or Hindu
David Mills, at the First Things blog, found a quote from Barry Goldwater arguing that being pro-abortion is actually being conservative: While searching the web for something, I came across the Planned Parenthood site and followed a link to a group of theirs called “Republicans
We have commercials. Then came product placement, in which commercials enter the storyline. Now we have advertisers working with writers to make the product an intrinsic part of the plot. From Harold Meyerson, <a href=”http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/06/AR2010040602662.html”>Moviemaking becomes commercial art</a>: <blockquote>As the cost of filmmaking continues to
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