The Anti-Manichaeist

I just had a mock interview for my application to the Dept of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova University. It helped a lot to focus me on the sorts of questions I need to prepare good answers for and my need to immerse myself in Catholic Social Thought before my interview on the […]

Just like the rest of us, only at a much greater scale and subject to the judgment of the public.
Josh Marshall describes Thomas Jefferson’s implicit appeal to civil disobedience in his justification of his own use of the presidential powers to go against the Constitution.
It is not that the president is above […]

My Brother in Christ, Matt, from A Pilgrim’s Digression, shared with me about his experience of posting over at a political conservative blog, Crazy Politico(CP), and his feelings that even though the blogger seemed to appreciate what he had to say and reposted part of it, nothing much came of it as the general blog […]

Absolutely hilarious!

Kudos a Carlos a Haysoos Politicas, for this well written article , “Bad Faith in the Land of Narnia”, by Jewish cultural and film critic, Sheerly Avni. The interesting thing about it is the author describes how her faith in God was nurtured very much by the writings of C.S. Lewis against his parents’ […]

I found from Google News, an article by IrelandOnline about how WTO protestors are “fighting battles” with police in Hong Kong. The violence part stems from how the protestors have been trying to break through police lines to storm the ongoing WTO meetings.
The protestors hit police with bamboo sticks and used a […]

There’s an interesting article in the BBC that goes into details on how the opposition candidate to Russian President Vladimir Putin is being harrassed regularly. The real problem is not the anti-Orange-Revolution maneuvers being used by Putin, but rather that the public is disillusioned with Democracy. Too many people are too poor and […]

There is a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Hong Kong right now. It sounds like things are not going well and that there are quite a few, 4500, vehement protestors from all over the region. Apparently one of the problems is that the US tends to make food donations that […]

My friend Steve Knight clued me into the following McClarenesque post of Steve Bush,
Progressive evangelicals just don’t seem to fit in anywhere. We find the political and theological conservatism of U.S. evangelicalism too confining. But we’re too evangelical to be anything else.

I had the blessing of when I was in Sweden meeting the Christian author, Ruth Valerio. She is an English-woman, a convert from Judaism(albeit from a somewhat secularized family) and has written a book, L is for Lifestyle. The book offers some practical ways Christians can hold to the statement made in […]