More from David Mills on what he has learned from studying today’s teen fiction: That [see the previous post] describes in outline what these books teach about the teenage life, but they also teach a lot about the world in which teenagers live. • The
E. J. Dionne sees conservatism reverting back to its old anti-government, extremism, and conspiracy theory days while abandoning its more recent Christian versions: Barack Obama’s campaign promise of change did not include a pledge to transform American conservatism. But one of his presidency’s major legacies
Archaeologists using lasers to clear away centuries of mineral accretions have uncovered in a 4th century Roman catacomb the earliest paintings of Sts. Peter, Paul, Andrew, and John. Here is the Apostle Paul: Pictured: The ‘sensational’ 1,600-year-old icon of St Paul found in a Roman
More on the prospect that the internet makes us dumber. In this case, by rewiring our brains: Nicholas Carr, a veteran writer about technology, is not sanguine about what he learned about his own Internet-infused brain, much less my brain. “What can science tell us
A southern California seminary will soon start training not only Christian pastors but also Jewish rabbis and Muslim imams. The venerable Claremont School of Theology, which has taught Methodist ministers and theologians for more than a century, will try an unorthodox approach this fall: cross-training
Not every doctor accepts medicare patients. Many doctors only accept a few. The same is true of medicaid patients. This is because government payments are less than the going rate for their services. This could become a problem. The number of doctors refusing new Medicare
Newsweek interviews Michael Hastings, the Rolling Stone reporter who broke the story quoting our top military brass in Afghanistan dissing the president and his staff, asking how in the world he got them to open up like they did. You reported a lot of sentiments
America’s top commander and his staff in Afghanistan are in big trouble for their disrespectful remarks about their civilian bosses that they made to a reporter from Rolling Stone: The top U.S. general in Afghanistan is headed to Washington to apologize for a magazine profile
The conventional view in academia today is that sex is biological, but gender is a cultural construction. That is, roles that are attached to being male or female are nothing more than the impositions of culture. Well, I just observed my 15-month-old granddaughter picking up
We discussed this book and this issue a while back, but a piece in USA Today by Rev. Henry G. Brinton–after a rather strained comparison with online social media–focuses on the problem introverts have with small groups in church, which have become ubiquitous in churches
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