President Biden’s unpardonable pardon

President Biden’s unpardonable pardon: We must love our children both rightly and righteously “Today, I signed a pardon for my son Hunter.” Those w...

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Harvey Mansfield — 2007 Jefferson Lecturer

Harvey Mansfield, William R. Kenan Professor of Government at Harvard University, delivered the 2007 Jefferson Lecture at the Warner Theater in Washington last night. The Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities is one of the nation's highest honors, and ...

May 9, 2007

Academic Bias Against Evangelicals?

The Institute for Jewish and Community Research recently conducted a poll of American college professors, asking them to rate their feelings toward specific religious groups. The report points to one glaring fact -- a majority of the polled faculty m ...

May 8, 2007

Anglican “Missionary” Bishop Named for America — The Schism Arrives

William Bennett once observed that America was fast becoming "the kind of nation civilized nations sent missionaries to." In truth, that is what America has now become, with the installation of Martyn Minns as "missionary bishop" for the Convocation ...

May 7, 2007

Are Mormons in the Mainstream? — New “On Faith” Article

The question for this week at "On Faith," the joint project of The Washington Post and Newsweek magazine, is this: After 175 years of existence, is Mormonism entering the mainstream of American religious life or are people still suspicious of it? A ...

May 4, 2007

Mstislav Rostropovich — The Baby in a Cello Case

Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich died April 27. His death, announced by Russia's Federal Culture Agency, brought an end to one of the great lives of the last century. Rostropovich was a musical genius, but his life was about much more than music. He was ...

May 4, 2007

Of Babies and Believers

Phillip Longman of the New America Foundation was interviewed by W. Bradford Wilcox of the University of Virginia in the current issue of Books & Culture. Longman is the author of The Empty Cradle, a look at the long-term impact of falling fertil ...

May 3, 2007

“In the Womb” — One Look and Your Eyes Are Opened

The public discussion about the power of ultrasound and modern imaging technologies has revealed something fascinating -- the pro-abortion movement does not want us peering into the womb. The view inside the womb transforms the moral debate over abor ...

May 2, 2007

“The Fetus is Squirming, and So Are We”

William Saletan of Slate.com is among the best in the business when it comes to reporting on biomedical and ethical controversies. Saletan is not pro-life, but he is usually quite fair in representing pro-life arguments and motivations. Such is the ...

May 1, 2007

“There’s Not Much Lord in this Church Service”

The movement toward gender-neutral language for God has picked up steam in recent years, and liberal churches have been busy rewriting language for worship and theology. Just last year the Presbyterian Church (USA) voted to "receive" a document that ...

April 27, 2007

The Bishop Condescends

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori of the Episcopal Church USA visited Boston this week and while there granted a noteworthy interview to The Boston Globe. In the course of the interview, Bishop Jefferts Schori described her church's election ...

April 26, 2007