2011‑2022, and is preserved here for archival purposes.
What all of these thinkers were after was free time in order to relax and rest We can't appreciate God's world without taking the time to think on our experience of it, and with that, how we sometimes aren't really experiencing it ...
He notes that "freedom of religion is not itself religious; rather, it reflects the modern decision to put (and keep) religion in its proper place But while Orwin's article gets at why religious freedom is important even for non-believers, there is one line in his article which could use some explan...
The federal decision to unilaterally announce the extension of health care funding through 2018-19 and leave it to the provinces to sort out how to use it is more significant for what it signals about the Harper approach to federalism than what it says about health care ...
The point is rather to create the space and the culture within which think tanks might recover the serious reflection for which they were founded Emerging after the first World War, think tanks were designed to serve two functions: policy development and political combat ...
Richter could hardly be accused of sticking to a single style (as opposed to, for instance, the work at the MoMA's retrospective of Dutch-born painter Willem de Kooning, which closes today, in which de Kooning largely sticks to the same abstract expressionist style even as it evolves and changes) ...
Realists would tell us that peace is the absence of war, but Epiphany reminds us that there can be no end to war, neither that within or without, apart from adoration which is shown, today, by the Magi Where there is no room for direction, O'Donovan writes, "Society is ruled by the imperative of uni...
He suggests that those who see government debt as a guillotine hanging by a thread over the head of the American public have it wrong ...
The other is that as we entered an era in which having children was a clear matter of choice, more and more women chose not to have them, and the birth rate plunged to 1.6 children per woman ...
Reflecting on some of Edwards' text, I was struck how different his approach to public theology was from much of what is practiced today I noticed the book on a shelf and picked it up, wondering how the National Energy Policy of the 1980s was rationalized ...
In fact, he was a thinker and writer of enormous depth and breadth—from the book on Aquinas to the essay on the pleasures of lying in bed—who took supremely seriously the human need to engage with the small and easy things that comprise the good Great progress is best measured, I think, in the splen...
Stripping the greeting down to the bare bones of "Happy Holidays" does not just mask the religious meaning of the day to make it acceptable in a secular society; it buries the a-religious cultural understanding of Christmas as the one day on the statutory holiday calendar that is uniquely dedicated ...
Is the expression of "simple, unalloyed kindness" an appropriate response to the death of a tyrant so heinous as Kim Jung-Il? By all accounts he did his best to destroy everything that is good and beautiful and true in his country by making a god of himself, torturing Christians, starving his people...
Where do I see the created purpose and normative law of God in the world? Beneath everything, we are a bunch of idealists who are trying to make the world in which we live a better place, contributing the wisdom gleaned from two thousand years of Christian social thought to the challenges we face to...
emerge from its taint of incipient Communism to form governments in several western provinces and recently become Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition federally? How did the Bloc harness the more radical aspects of the Quiet Revolution and end up both dominating the National Assembly and playing an import...
While most of us are profoundly selfish, scarcely inclined to extend generosity toward others, even the good ones—let alone the moderate effort of just assuming positive intent—God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ came, and died, for us.
So let us remember this: while most of us are profoundly selfish, scarcely inclined to extend generosity toward others, even the good ones—let alone the moderate effort of just assuming positive intent—God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ came, and died, for us ...