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Alvin Plantinga: “Science and Religion – Where the Conflict Really Lies”

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

This is a lecture Al Plantinga gave at Biola University about 18 months ago. He gave this lecture while he was working on his recently released book, Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism (Oxford University Press, 2012). I am happy to report that Plantinga will be speaking at Baylor next Thursday (April 26) at 3:30 pm in the Foyer of Meditation at the Armstrong Browning Library. Reception to follow from 5:00pm-6:00pm in the Cox Reception Room of... Read more

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This is very cool: The REAL First Chord of The Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night”

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

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Catholic and Non-Catholic Reviews of Journeys of Faith

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

There are now several reviews of Journeys of Faith that have appeared on line, including ones penned by my friends Devin Rose (Catholic) and Carl Trueman (Protestant). Rose’s is in four parts, with the first two now accessible online. Here is a list of the reviews, so far: Carl Trueman at Reformation 21 Devin Rose, part I (reviews the contribution of Eastern Orthodox convert Willsburth as well as his interaction with Professor Craig Blaising’s response) Devin Rose, part 2 (reviews... Read more

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Good News for Modern Man, Las Vegas Edition

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

In Journeys of Faith: Evangelicalism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism, and Anglicanism (Zondervan, 2012), here is how my contribution to the book begins: I was baptized in the Catholic Church as an infant, several weeks after I was born on November 3, 1960. In January 1967, our family moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, where I received First Holy Communion (May 1968) and the Sacrament of Confirmation (May 1973). It was soon after my confirmation that I became intensely interested in the person... Read more

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When the Saint Goes Swearing: Mormonism and the Romney Candidacy

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

In 2007, I published an article at First Thing‘s On the Square, “When the Saint Goes Swearing In.” It was a review essay of Hugh Hewitt’s 2007 book, A Mormon in the White House? Given the scuttlebutt over comments made by the gentleman who introduced Governor Rick Perry at the Value Values Summit last year, the Rev. Robert Jeffress (Pastor, First Baptist Church, Dallas), as well as the strange stuff emanating from MSNBC, my First Things review essay has become... Read more

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MSNBC’s Anti-Mormon Bigots

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

Read about it on the Article VI blog. Read more

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Why Did Legal Elites Underestimate the Case Against the Mandate?

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

That’s the title of Jonathan Adler’s insightful post over at the Volokh Conspiracy. It begins this way: Greg Sargent is one of many commentators wondering “How did legal observers and Obamacare backers get it so wrong?” I think he’s asking the wrong question. A better question to ask is: why did so many expect legal elites to have any particular insight into the current court? After all, many of the legal experts who were so dismissive of the arguments against... Read more

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Catechesis, Conversion, and the Hope That is Within You

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

That is the title of my latest piece over at The Catholic Thing. Here’s how it begins: During Holy Week and Easter Sunday Mass, in Catholic parishes throughout the world, many pilgrims will be received into the Church. Most will have gone through the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), a six-month study of the Church’s teachings and practices. This year I have the privilege of being part of the RCIA team at St. Peter’s Catholic Student Center at Baylor... Read more

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Michael Licona on “Flipping the Bird,” i.e., giving the finger

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

My friend, Mike Licona, a New Testament scholar, muses on the historical origins of flipping people off. Here’s the video, as it appears on the Parchment & Pen Blog: Read more

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“Potential Persons” in the “After-Birth Abortion” Article

Last updated on: June 22, 2020 at 4:54 pm By Francis J. Beckwith

This is my latest over at The Catholic Thing. Here’s how it begins: As readers of The Catholic Thing are well aware, the Journal of Medical Ethics, a periodical to which I have contributed, recently published the controversial article, “After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?”, written by the philosophers Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva. Throughout the article, the authors refer to fetuses and newborns as “potential persons,” which, I am sure, sounds like an odd neologism for those uninitiated in contemporary moral philosophy.... Read more

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