The Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup post made me recall a C. S. Lewis quip, which together formed this thought: If the problem of pain is a difficult philosophical and theological problem–how could a just God allow the existence of so much pain in the world?–surely
Saying that liberals are on the “left” and conservatives are on the “right” goes back to the old General Assembly in post-revolutionary France. Representatives of the conservative factions–the nobility, the clergy–sat at the right of the meeting hall, while the Jacobins and other radical parties
It’s Nobel Prize season, a time to salute good scholarship and, even more, to marvel at the structures built into nature that the winners have discovered. This year’s Nobel prize for medicine goes to three scientists who discovered how chromosomes stay together and keep their
Rod Dreher at Crunchycon draws attention to a venture designed to make the Bible more conservative. It’s a project of Conservapedia, a conservative version of Wikipedia. The idea is to use Wiki-style mass collaboration to make a new translation of the Bible that accords with
USA Today online reports this exchange: Famed atheist Richard Dawkins appeared on The Colbert Report Wednesday night promoting his new book on evolution, The Greatest Show on Earth. His conversation with Stephen Colbert went something like this: Dawkins: “You asked me for the evidence for
I mentioned in a post yesterday that I am teaching a course at Patrick Henry College called “Major Christian Authors.” Some of you asked about my reading list. Here it is: (1) Dante’s Paradiso (2) Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book I “Holiness” (3) George Herbert,
From an article entitled “Growing quantity of `Christian’ films now focus on quality”: In addition to “To Save a Life,” [about basketball players facing a friend’s death] other upcoming 2010 Christian movies include “Letters to God,” a Possibility Pictures film about a cancer-stricken boy who
Over 100 Hollywood moguls and insiders–including Woody Allen, Martin Scorcese, David Lynch, and Harvey Weinstein–have signed petitions urging the release of child rapist Roman Polanski, who has been arrested after fleeing a plea bargain 30 years ago. What impresses me is that pretty much the
Steven F. Hayward, a Reagan scholar and a conservative himself, asks Is Conservatism Brain-Dead?. I’ll put his argument simply, so my fellow conservatives can understand it in case he’s right: Conservative intellectuals–such as William F. Buckley, Irving Kristol, Milton Friedman–are dying out and have few
Rio de Janeiro wins 2016 Olympic Games. Madrid came in second. Tokyo came in third. Chicago–despite the presence of President and Mrs. Obama and Oprah Winfrey–got knocked out in the first round. Congratulations, Brazil. (FWS, our correspondent in Brasil, as he and Brazilians spell it,
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