Robert P. George Eugene Genovese was a teller of truth, even when the truth to be told was ugly, embarrassing, humiliating. He told the truth, even when it meant confessing complicity in world historical crimes. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/10/6481/   Read more

Matthew J. Franck THERE IS A GROWING awareness among Americans that religious freedom in our country has come under sustained pressures. In the public square where freedom of religion meets public policy, it becomes clearer all the time that there is a high price to be paid for being true to one’s conscience. This is no tale of Chicken Little—although a chain of chicken sandwich restaurants based in Atlanta is part of the story. Let me give you a few... Read more

From Dan Wallace’s blog: ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ “News flash: Harvard Theological Review has decided not to publish Karen King¹s paper on the Coptic papyrus fragment on the grounds that the fragment is probably a fake.” This from an email Dr. Craig Evans, the Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Acadia University and Divinity College, sent to me earlier today. He said that Helmut Koester (Harvard University), Bentley Layton (Yale University), Stephen Emmel (University of Münster), and Gesine Robinson (Claremont Graduate School)–all... Read more

Young women now have to defend themselves not only from stereotypical sexual predators, but also from older women and gay men who seek their eggs. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/09/6168?utm_source=RTA+Newman+Predators&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

In his new book, Rushdie recounts being urged by the British authorities who were protecting him to “lower the temperature” by issuing a statement that could be taken for an apology. He does so. It fills him almost immediately with regret, and the attacks on him are unabated. He “had taken the weak position and was therefore treated as a weakling,” he writes. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/24/opinion/keller-the-satanic-video.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www Read more

Is inequality the cause of our worst social ills? http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/09/6174?utm_source=RTA+Holloway+Inequality&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more

From the respected NT scholar Larry Hurtado– The news media today are rife with reports about a recent paper given by Professor Karen King (Harvard Divinity School) on a fragment of a Coptic text (at this point, taken as a genuine ancient text, perhaps from the 4th-5th century CE), in which Jesus might be taken as referring to “my wife”. Even serious historians have opined on the item, such as Professor Kate Cooper (Manchester) for the BBC here. Aside from... Read more

Why is it OK to mock one religion but not another? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444450004578002010241044712.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop Read more

In his absorbing new book, Where the Conflict Really Lies, Alvin Plantinga, a distinguished analytic philosopher known for his contributions to metaphysics and theory of knowledge as well as to the philosophy of religion, turns this alleged opposition on its head. His overall claim is that “there is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.” By naturalism he means the view that the world describable by the... Read more

Slavery was a great evil, but the Constitution was neither its source nor its guarantor. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/09/6301?utm_source=RTA+Dyer+Constitution&utm_campaign=winstorg&utm_medium=email Read more