thoughts in and out of season
James Kalb A correspondent referred me to a post by a “progressive Christian” blogger as a sign of a new frontier in inclusiveness. The post picked up on another blogger’s claim that “the self is inherently violent.” The example used was blogging, which involves self-assertion that comes at the expense of other bloggers. So it seems that … More ...
That’s the topic of my latest piece at Crisis Magazine.
Not quite, but I do have a new column up at Catholic World Report on Sex and the Public Order.
The following review of Robert P. George’s Conscience and Its Enemies appeared in the October 2013 Chronicles:
… More ...Conscience and its Enemies is a collection of Robert George’s recent writings for a general audience. In addition to the title topic, it includes chapters on the defense of natural marriage, the protection of life from conception
There have been a couple more reviews by bloggers of my new book Against Inclusiveness, one by Kidist Asrat at her site Reclaiming Beauty and one by Jeff Culbreath at the group blog What’s Wrong with the World.
For some reason people find my new piece at Crisis optimistic. I’d say rather that it refuses to be pessimistic: disaster is never absolute, it doesn’t last forever, and it may not go as far as feared, so don’t give up.
I have a new column up at Catholic World Report about the troubled relation between the Church and those who define reality in the secular world, and what to do about it.
I get my first review, at Catholic World Report, from someone other than an individual blogger. The review, by Jerry Salyer, starts off with an interesting quote from an instruction on liberation theology by then-Cardinal Ratzinger.
The following review of Garry’s Will’s Why Priests? appeared in the June 2013 Chronicles:
… More ...Garry Wills identifies himself as a Christian. He says he accepts the creeds, along with prayer, divine providence, the Gospels, the Eucharist, and the Mystical Body of Christ as the body of all believers. He thinks it a bad thing