March 15, 2011

Opportunities ‘always there’ for American women ________________________________________ One of the authors of the new book, “The Flipside of Feminism,” is suggesting what would be good for American women is for feminism to get out of the way. Phyllis Schlafly and Suzanne Venker have authored the work that essentially documents the failings of the leftist ideology, instead offering practical solutions for a better understanding of womanhood. Noting federal studies that reveal women are less happy now – after 40 years of... Read more

March 15, 2011

Khaled Abu Toameh   Mohammed Nabil Taha, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy, died this week at the entrance to a Lebanese hospital after doctors refused to help him because his family could not afford to pay for medical treatment. http://www.jidaily.com/83Y4/e Read more

March 14, 2011

FAITH MATTERS: Are Christians to blame for Muslim hate? By Uwe Siemon-Netto First of two parts. As Congress is considering the extent of Islamic extremism in America, scholars on both sides of the Atlantic wonder whether the liberal Protestant theology of the last two centuries must share some blame for the violence committed by Muslim radicals. According to Thomas Schirrmacher, a German sociologist of religion, this debate is based on the following conjecture: Until the 18th century, few Muslim theologians... Read more

March 14, 2011

David Mills Though it was launched just eleven days ago, no one, judging from a google search of the title, is still talking about A Call for Intergenerational Justice, a new statement by the Evangelical Left, who are suddenly and for the first time worried about governmental debt. http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/03/late-to-the-debt-party#commentContent Read more

March 13, 2011

David Bentley Hart So I thought I might modestly propose a means of redressing the imbalance between liberty and freedom that now exists, if only as a conceptual experiment. Perhaps the answer to our current conflict between civilized values and the nihilism of pure “negative liberty” (to use Isaiah Berlin’s phrase) is a revival of dueling. This may seem like an extreme solution, I grant, but only because we have allowed so many of the charming customs of the Old... Read more

March 10, 2011

Peter Wood I see no reason to get in high dudgeon over this, but it does strike me that Schiller is giving voice to a self-flattery mythology, and one that is easily recognizable. It is the mythology that intellectuals are, by their nature, “liberal,” and that conservatives are by their nature anti-intellectual, opposed to the “pursuit of knowledge,” ignorant of the larger world (e.g. Egypt), and disinclined to support the institutions of higher learning. This is a thesis, and it... Read more

March 10, 2011

We were separated into groups for the dialogue, and when I was permitted to speak, I said, “I am Catholic, and I do not believe in Islam.” Following me, one of the Muslim students spoke. She said that she was Muslim, and then she addressed me directly. In a soft, Arabic accented voice, she told me, “You are an infidel because you do not accept Islam” and that “according to Islam you do not deserve to live.” A second Muslim... Read more

March 10, 2011

José Ramos-Horta. President of East Timor I was surprised by the state of peace and economic prosperity prevailing in Israel and the West Bank. Israelis and Palestinians alike are pleased that not one single attack has been launched from the West Bank into Israel in four years. http://www.jidaily.com/JHc/e Read more

March 9, 2011

Huckabee speaks with CT on issues like immigration and the environment, the faith of politicians, and a possible presidential candidacy. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2011/februaryweb-only/qamikehuckabee.html Read more

March 3, 2011

George Weigel For twenty-seven years, the International Bulletin of Missionary Research has published an annual “Status of Global Mission” report, which attempts to quantify the world Christian reality, comparing Christianity’s circumstances to those of other faiths, and assaying how Christianity’s various expressions are faring when measured against the recent (and not-so-recent) past. The report is unfailingly interesting, sometimes jarring, and occasionally provocative. The provocation in the 2011 report involves martyrdom. http://www.eppc.org/publications/pubID.4360/pub_detail.asp Read more


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