I want to be the Queen of England

Speaking of nihilism, here is a potentially hilarious version. Where are Jonathan Swift or Evelyn Waugh when we need them?

No hope for theocracy

This article points out the simple truth about US evangelicals and politics: since they are no cultural heavyweights, they always get assimilated into the Washington establishment. Then, a generation later another "wave" comes out of the woods...

Real love

An interesting prison ministry.

It doesn't fit our agenda

An under-reported stem cell breakthrough.

Mob "justice"

Persecution in Pakistan.

Hell House

What to make of this?

No wonder

In case you didn't know, the two academic disciplines most closely associated with atheism are biology and psicology.

Culture wars

Amy Sullivan is onto something in pointing out that many non-Republican people in mainstream America are "culturally" unconfortable with the Democratic party. The comments are also quite representative of what she is talking about: lots of aggressive secular liberals who think one can rely on "science" to live free from the bonds of religious superstition. What kind of schools produced people that are at the same time so ignorant and so presumptuous?

Reason and Faith at Harvard

A Harvard curriculum committee recommended that every student be required, as part of his or her general education, to take one course in an area that the committee styled "Reason and Faith." The Harvard Crimson, the university's paper, doesn't like the idea.

Dead on

The Onion brilliantly summarizes the situation in Iraq and North Korea.

Searching for unity

Alasdair MacIntyre wants to "de-fragment" American Catholic universities. The least convincing part of his argument is when he says that what is lacking is the will to change. What is really lacking is the awareness that faith is the "integrative and unifying" factor that can give unity to our understanding of reality (see "Why the Church," Ch. 10). But this must first of all happens as an experience.

A serious man

Another interesting conversion story.

Inspirations

The question is: who is inspiring whom? Because certainly somebody feels inspired...

Baby boomlet

At least France is reproducing.

Finally

Somebody discovered that in order to learn you have to look at the subject matter and not at yourself.