Like Lin, I’m a Harvard graduate, albeit more than a decade ahead of him, and a second-generation Chinese-American. I’m also a fellow believer, one of those every-Sunday-worshiping, try-to-read-the-Bible-and-pray types, who agreed with Lin when he said to reporters after the Jazz game, “God works in mysterious and miraculous ways.” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/sports/basketball/the-knicks-jeremy-lin-faith-pride-and-points.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2 Read more

A 19th-century wooden model has returned to Jerusalem after more than a century abroad, offering a rare glimpse of what lies underneath one of the world’s most revered and combustible holy sites. http://www.jidaily.com/X4su/e Read more

There are two kinds of Arabs in this world. Those who hate Jews, and those who don’t. And in my life, I have met more of the former than the latter. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/291094/arab-me-lee-habeeb Read more

The sexual revolution puts forth a vision of paradise in which we rig up some nifty devices to guarantee infertility, consider neither holiness nor virtue, and believe in the blessings of no one and nowhere and nothing. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/02/4756?utm_source=RTA+Esolen+Sexual+Paradise&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email Read more

Going forward, all Americans who support our founding principle of religious liberty should not only reject the White House’s offer outright. They should raise the stakes in this debate, and continue to press for the rights of all their fellow citizens who have religious scruples about abortion, and even those who have moral scruples but are not self-consciously “religious” about it. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/02/4716?utm_source=RTA+Franck+Mandate&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email Read more

If the organizers of the national prayer breakfast ever want a sitting president to attend their event again, they need to expect that any leader in his right mind is going to ask — no, demand — that he be allowed to see a copy of the keynote address that is traditionally given immediately before the president’s. That’s how devastating was the speech given by a little known historical biographer named Eric Metaxas, whose clever wit and punchy humor barely... Read more

Those who defame the Prophet are they who slaughter and bomb innocent people all over the world—in New York, Madrid, London, Bali, Riyadh, Cairo, Kabul and Baghdad—while citing the name of Allah and his Prophet and under the banner of Islamic jihad. Ongoing demonstrations follow in support of their acts, while Internet sites sing praises of the “knight” Osama bin Laden, the “hero of the two raids on New York and Washington [i.e., the strikes of 9/11].” http://www.stonegateinstitute.org/2823/who-defames-the-prophet Read more

In this sense, what is at issue in the controversy over the administration’s rule is not just the question of religious liberty but the question of non-governmental institutions in a free society. Does civil society consist of a set of institutions that help the government achieve its purposes as it defines them when their doing so might be more efficient or convenient than the state’s doing so itself, or does civil society consist of an assortment of efforts by citizens... Read more

A Matter of Perspective By Linda Whitlock Moral courage is a rare commodity these days. The Catholic bishops have it. The Susan G. Komen Foundation – not so much. When the Catholic bishops learned of the new HHS guidelines that would force Catholic institutions to offer health insurance coverage in conflict with their religious beliefs, the bishops took to their keyboards and pulpits and faced down the Obama administration. In the ironic tradition of Martin Luther, they made their stand.... Read more

In a world preoccupied with material wealth and convenience, the gift of life is often minimized and sometimes forgotten altogether. Modernity encourages us to view “unwanted” life as a burden that will hold us back. For Muslims, however, just as for many in other faith traditions, life must be acknowledged, always and everywhere, as a true blessing. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/02/4387?utm_source=RTA+Ismail+Life&utm_campaign=email&utm_medium=email Read more