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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Day One for Civil Unions in the UK — What Does it Mean?

Same-sex civil unions are set to become legal in the United Kingdom today. The civil partnerships will enjoy all the legal and financial protections previously reserved only for married heterosexual couples. As The Observer [London] explains: Gay co ...

December 5, 2005

Does Anyone Actually Play Music? Does it Matter to the Church?

Charles Rosen, an influential music critic, reviews Robert Philip's new book, Performing Music in the Age of Recording in The New York Review of Books. The article raises a number of important questions and issues. [Read Rosen's article, "Playing M ...

December 2, 2005

Winston Churchill in Retrospect

Yesterday was the anniversary of Winston Churchill's birth in 1874. That occasion offers me the opportunity to point once again to Churchill and the central role he played in the twentieth century. I will let Geoffrey Best, one of Churchill's finest ...

December 1, 2005

William F. Buckley, Jr. Turns 80

William F. Buckley, Jr., perhaps the single most influential conservative thinker in America today, turned 80 on November 24. National Review, the magazine he founded in 1955, became the engine for an intellectual awakening among American conservativ ...

December 1, 2005

The Kindergarten Code — The Ivy League for Five-Year-Olds

Author Ralph Schoenstein once described the culture of the overly-ambitious as "a world where parents are competing to see whose child can be pushed out of childhood first, a world that moved one cartoonist to show a mother asking a father, 'But if e ...

December 1, 2005

Girls, Guys, and the Panda — The Battle of the Sexes at the Zoo

Tai Shan is the new "chick magnet" at The National Zoo in Washington, DC. Tai Shan is a giant panda cub, and The Washington Times reports that women all over Washington are swooning. "He is too cute, say he is," quipped Aqsa Khan, 24, of Woodbridge ...

November 30, 2005

Babies Surviving Abortion — “Substandard Medicine”

The Times [London] reports that an agency of the British government is set to investigate reports that up to 50 babies a year are born alive after botched abortions. See this: The investigation, by the Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child He ...

November 30, 2005

Getting Ready for The Chronicles of Narnia

The Walt Disney Company and Walden Media are set to release The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe on December 9 -- so get ready for a major cultural event. I'll provide much more material about the series, the movie, C. S. L ...

November 29, 2005

How Not to Talk to Your Kids About Sex

Controversy has erupted over the American Girl dolls and the company's support for a group known as Girls Inc. The American Girl company had been well respected for its line of quality dolls and accessories and for its wholesome image. But all that c ...

November 29, 2005

How Not to Talk About Homosexuality

A speaker at Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington provides a truly tragic example of how Christians must not talk about homosexuality. This is one of the most serious questions facing the Christian church -- a challenge to biblical authority and ...

November 28, 2005