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November 2012

November 27, 2012

Reason and Compassion in the Marriage Debate

In their book What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense, Sherif Girgis, Ryan T....

November 26, 2012

The Future of Marriage: Why “The Inevitable” Is Not Inevitable

Luis Tellez Public opinion, the methods and messaging of LGBT activists, and social reality all...

November 21, 2012

WSJ: The wisdom of upholding tradition on gay marriage

By SHERIF GIRGIS, RYAN T. ANDERSON and ROBERT P. GEORGE The U.S. Supreme Court decides...

November 21, 2012

Thanksgiving and the American Civil Religion—Destructive, Useless, or Beneficial?

Robert Benne Arguably Thanksgiving is a high holy day of American civil religion, a time...

November 14, 2012

The church in the new regime

George Weigel President Obama’s re-election and the prospect of a second Obama administration, freed from...

November 13, 2012

Conservatism at the crossroads

Matthew J. Franck In the spring of 1858, after an epic fight in the U.S....

November 13, 2012

Israel historian Benny Morris responds to critics left and right

The writer once riled right-wingers with his research on the 1948 war and the Palestinian...

November 13, 2012

Did Jews in Antiquity Know Their Bible?

It turns out that there is no – none – evidence for the regular public...

November 12, 2012

Gary Burge: Not Sent by Heaven

One wonders whether Wheaton College believes that such programs befit a respectable teaching institution…. Burge's...

November 06, 2012

The underside of the Reformation

Charles Chaput The Reformation unintentionally undid the medieval synthesis of faith and reason. Now we...

November 05, 2012

Same-Sex Marriage Ten Years On: Lessons from Canada

The effects of same-sex civil marriage in Canada—restrictions on free speech rights, parental rights in...

November 02, 2012

The plight of Syria’s Christians: ‘We left Homs because they were trying to kill us’

In the civil war, they have tried to stay neutral. But despite this, many are...

November 02, 2012

Big Government Should Not Redefine Marriage

Is there really “something highly contradictory,” as Kathryn Shelton argued here on Doublethink, about a...

November 02, 2012

Marriage and the New York Times’ Fear of Democracy

Ever since the rise of the progressive movement, the American Left has championed political reforms...

November 01, 2012

Elegy for a Tree

Rabbi Barry Kornblau In the Garden of Eden, one tree tantalized Adam and Eve with...

November 01, 2012

A would-be new leader of Israel’s Arabs urges full integration with Israel

Bedouin politician Aatef Karinaoui launches a Knesset bid, slamming Arab MKs and calling for an...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Bono, Africa, and capitalism

Ryan Anderson Back in March 2007, I suggested in a First Things On The Square...

October 31, 2012

The Vindication of Mark Regnerus

Matthew Franck Mark Regnerus’s response to his critics shows more clearly that instability is characteristic...

October 30, 2012

Mark Regnerus and the Storm over the New Family Structures Study

Attacks on sociologist Mark Regnerus after he challenged the “no differences” thesis haven’t obscured the...

October 25, 2012

Neither Darwin Nor God?

Distinguished philosopher Thomas Nagel rejects both evolutionary materialism and theism as adequate accounts of the...

October 24, 2012

The Embarrassment of the Catholic Left

There they go again. The usual gang of Catholic theology professors has signed a manifesto,...

October 23, 2012

Why We Stay Away from the Interfaith Roundtable

Jewish groups are pulling out of the Christian-Jewish Roundtable after 15 Protestant leaders, on the...

October 23, 2012

A war on religion?

In a world where the government believes that the First Amendment’s religious freedoms don’t apply...

October 22, 2012

The Real Differences Between Mormons and Orthodox Christians

And whether they really matter in the presidency. Gerald R. McDermott

October 21, 2012

Arab Spring and the Israeli enemy

from the Arab News in Saudi Arabia The starvation, the killings and the destruction in...

October 14, 2012

Romney’s Mormonism is a positive in campaign

Robert Benne is the author of "Good and Bad Ways to Think About Religion and...

October 10, 2012

Was Genesis 1:1 a critique of a Babylonian creation myth?

Is Genesis’s description of the universe at its inception, before the creation of light, a...

October 10, 2012

Wrong (and right) ways to think about the Hebrew Bible

Jon Levenson "The Hebrew Bible is the modern university's blind side," Yoram Hazony writes, and...

October 04, 2012

Distorting Christian Just War Teaching

In my first post of this series, I called attention to a short article titled...

October 04, 2012

Trivializing Evil, a GOP Mistake

This reference to the intrinsic and thus genuine nature of these evils should be a...

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