The Ever-Present Audience
L. M. Sacasas: It is not just that our attention is fractured by the constant barrage of information, it is also that our desire for attention has deformed our intellectual and emotional lives. The ever-present audience has proven too powerful a temptation,...
Why do so many people feel the need to lie about Cardinal McCarrick?
Here is Timothy Egan, a columnist writing in the New York Times:
Spiritual Friendship Pre-Conference Talks: Johanna Finegan
This talk from Johanna Finegan is well worth your time if you want to see a response from a Spiritual Friendship writer to much of the controversy surrounding the Revoice event.
I Hope I’m Wrong by Dessa
One of the things I am increasingly convinced of is the fact that many, many American young people are actually quite concerned with matters of spirituality and religious life. The much-discussed “rise of the nones” is less about the rejection of...
Should Pro-Lifers Learn from the DSA?
Matt Walther has a piece over at The Week which I, perhaps predictably, am feeling really torn about. Here’s Walther’s argument:
On Not Being Like Juan Gines de Sepulveda
If you haven’t read Catherine Addington’s post on the main page today, please do.
What do we mean by “community”?
There’s a piece over at TGC I want to flag for a couple reasons. That said, before I get into some reservations about it, I wanted to note that the author is a pastor in Fargo, ND and he’s reporting...
The Scientist’s Prayer
The prayer of the scientist if he prayed, which is not likely: Lord, grant that my discovery may increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant...
A Brief Note on Paige Patterson’s Defenders
If we practice latitudinarianism either individually or corporately in an age like our own, we have removed our credibility before the non-Christian, post-Christian relativistic, skeptical, lost world. If you think that those who have rejected the plastic culture and are...
Evangelicals and Catholics Together in 2018
Brief notes on this question: First, Rod is correct in his response to Walther in which he notes the extremely American characteristics of American Catholicism. Moreover, this is a trend that goes back some time—at least to JFK’s awful speech...