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December 2014

December 31, 2014

When People Try to Beat You Up With Words

Many people don't like other people living outside the middle class mainstream and insist on...

December 29, 2014

Spurgeon’s Insights

Something I stumbled upon while looking for something: the great nineteenth-century Baptist preacher Charles Haddon...

December 26, 2014

Love Is Not Love

Another item from the past year I'd like to post again. By which, "love is...

December 25, 2014

Chesterton on Santa Claus

From Commonweal in 1935: G. K. Chesterton's Santa Claus and Science. One point he makes:...

December 23, 2014

Watch Out for Nice People

Another repeat, this one offered for its relevance for this season in which it is...

December 22, 2014

Seeing Africa

Interesting and useful: 8 Maps That Will Change the Way You Look at Africa. The site...

December 19, 2014

Business & Business

Two good tweets from Arthur Brooks (@arthurbrooks), the president of the American Enterprise Institute: What...

December 12, 2014

Not Torture, Just Inhumane and Degrading

"[H]ooding, stress positions, white noise, sleep deprivation and deprivation of food and water . . . combined...

December 10, 2014

The Tale of Princess Kaguya

A fascinating essay by Michael Toscano on the Japanese director Isao Takahata, whose latest and last...

December 10, 2014

Particular Loves, In This World and the Next

We could see his sister in the next room, standing up straight, alert, obviously happy...

December 06, 2014

Mugged By a Ratings System Designed for Someone Else

The English journalist Jon Ronson, best known here as the author whose The Men Who...

December 06, 2014

Hurting Thumbs

From our son in New York: "A little kid on the train today just told his mom...

December 03, 2014

Books on Tolkien and Lewis

The same website that listed Patrick Deneen's twelve books to read on Christianity and politics...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

Changing Campus Sexual Culture

The responses to the Rolling Stone expose of the University of Virginia's sexual responses all say...

November 28, 2014

Very Dubious Miracles

"I had my doubts, from the moment I read the headline, 'The evangelicals who believe...

November 27, 2014

Penelope Fitzgerald’s Tone of Command

“I’m sorry I’m late, but my house sank.” So explained Penelope Fitzgerald to her students...

November 21, 2014

The Obama Mythology

The Atlantic's fairyland view of Obama: From today's "This Week on TheAtlantic.com" email, the description of...

November 19, 2014

The Man Who High-Fived the Pope

Meet the Southern Baptist evangelist who high-fived the pope and feels a surprising, and encouraging, passion...

November 17, 2014

Dishonoring Cremation

An essay by the philosopher Rachel Lu taking up the subject of Friday's The Grave...

November 16, 2014

TV Helped Change the Country’s View of LGBT Life

"As television has long been a pivotal platform for addressing controversial issues, it has engendered...

November 14, 2014

Please Unfriend Him

Cheers for Father Larry Richards, who wrote on his Facebook page in October: If you...

November 13, 2014

The Perils of Reading, or Misreading

From The New Republic's story on the once infamous fiction-writer Steven Glass: "Steve Glass now lives in...

November 12, 2014

Christianity Is For Losers

My latest column for Aleteia. It begins: “I wouldn’t go to church with my plumber.”...

November 12, 2014

Eat Civilized

In Mother Jones, Michael Pollan explains What's Wrong With the Paleo Diet. He argues, essentially, that civilizations...

November 12, 2014

Just Don’t Mention the Church to Converts

An accurate list of Ten Things Not to Say to a Convert, by Abby Johnson. This...

November 11, 2014

Virtue Pays Also

The philosopher Rachel Lu responds to my Promiscuity Pays with an article on the blessings of...

November 11, 2014

What’s in the name Mullarkey?

A short but poignant reflection on names by my friend Maureen Mullarkey, What's In a...

November 09, 2014

LifeNews & the Truth

Here's the headline from LifeNews: Wendy Davis Campaign Blames Massive Defeat on Ebola. Here's the lede:...

November 09, 2014

The NYTimes Misses the Point

Asked by the Times' public editor Margaret Sullivan, dealing with readers' objections that the newspaper is...

November 07, 2014

The Atlantic Feels the Urgency

The Atlantic says in its latest newsletter "Time for SCOTUS to Tackle Gay Marriage." Meaning: Do...