The American pope: What does the election of Pope Leo XIV mean?

The Roman Catholic Church has a new pope, and it didn’t take the papal conclave long to make it happen. On the fourth ballot, taken in the grandeur of...

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What Makes Literature Truly Subversive? Alison Lurie Looks at C. S. Lewis

In the February 9, 2006 edition of The New York Review of Books, Alison Lurie of Cornell University reviews The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe movie and two books about C. S. Lewis. Along the way, she also offers her criti ...

January 23, 2006

Truth Really Is Stranger Than Fiction — “The Book of Daniel” and the Episcopalians

Jack Kenny, the creator of NBC's, The Book of Daniel, is desperately trying to save his show from an almost certain cancellation. He accused conservative Christians of being "bullies" and blamed the show's weak ratings on evangelicals. He didn't say ...

January 20, 2006

Now, Wait Just A Minute . . . When is a Blurb Not a Blurb?

Centurion at Flame of Fire has an important post that was forwarded to me. It seems that the publisher of Marcia Z. Nelson's book, The Gospel According to Oprah, sent out a postcard to members of the Christian Booksellers Association that featured th ...

January 19, 2006

Is God Dead in Europe? A Vision of the Future, Coming Fast

Journalist James P. Gannon offers a bracing picture of what happens when secularism takes hold of a civilization in "Is God Dead in Europe?," published in USA Today. Consider these observations: "Common wisdom has it that alcoholics outnumber pract ...

January 18, 2006

Justices Uphold Assisted Suicide in Oregon

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Oregon's controversial assisted suicide law yesterday, turning back a challenge from the Bush administration. The 6-3 decision followed a familiar pattern, with justices Anontin Scalia and Clarence Thomas dissenting, alo ...

January 18, 2006

Appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live” Tonight

I am scheduled to appear tonight on CNN's "Larry King Live" tonight to discuss the movie Brokeback Mountain and the issue of homosexuality. The program starts at 9:00 est and will repeat at midnight. ...

January 17, 2006

Rehabilitating Judas?

The Times [London] is reporting that the Vatican is considering a proposal to rehabilitate Judas, the disciple who betrayed Christ. Here is the crucial section of the paper's report: The proposed "rehabilitation" of the man who was paid 30 pieces of ...

January 17, 2006

“Fires Dimmed for a Time” — Taylor Branch on Martin Luther King, Jr. and His Era

Historian Taylor Branch has now completed his massive and magisterial chronicle of the civil rights era with the much-awaited release of Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968. Canaan's Edge is the third volume of Branch's trilogy, and th ...

January 16, 2006

Tomorrow’s World War — Niall Ferguson’s Warning

Historian Niall Ferguson warns that the situation in the Middle East is growing more and more dangerous -- especially with the development of nuclear weapons in Iran. Indeed, he sees the real possibility of nuclear catastrophe and a possible world wa ...

January 16, 2006

It’s Over, We’re Doomed — The Gaia Hypothesis

James Lovelock, the originator of the "Gaia" hypothesis, now argues that planet Earth is doomed and there is nothing we can do about it. Lovelock argued thirty years ago that the earth is regulated by a planetary-scale control system he named "Gaia." ...

January 16, 2006