For Greater Glory

The pre-release buzz for this indie film has brought to my attention a war that I don’t remember hearing about before – and it happened only 90 years ago, in a neighboring country, with staggering loss of life. I’m a bit embarrassed that it took a movie to put the Cristeros on my radar screen, [...]

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A century or so of bad teaching

The cult of the expert, and other plagues, didn’t come upon us entirely without warning, as old books and magazines show.  

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Book review: A Special Mother Is Born

Gerard Nadal writes: This book addresses one of the burning issues of our day. With prenatal diagnostics leading to the abortions of the less-than-perfect among us, with parents who are frightened into paralysis by these diagnoses and a medical establishment increasingly surrendering to the cowardice of eugenics, over thirty mothers and three fathers of special [...]

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Bertin goes searching for clues

A couple of chapters from Not Exactly Allies: 46 – BERTIN GOES SEARCHING FOR CLUES A few days later, Bertin Nason decided he was tired of sitting around hoping someone came up with information on the Arab boy’s murder, or on undercover communists of a latter-day mutant variety, or on the ambusher Jean Blondet, or [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday (Updated)

1. Does anyone know which Bible translation(s) the American Founding Fathers were using? It’s my understanding that the Pilgrims used the Geneva Bible (which I’m reading on Kindle in a 1587 edition), but it occurs to me that (off the top of my head) I don’t know what the Founders were hauling with them to [...]

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A little art history (and why so much of it today is ugly)

From “Life Imitates Art: Redeeming Pop Culture” (Chuck Colson, Breakpoint Commentary, September 22, 1999): …Up until the Enlightenment, art was seen as a way of expressing profound truths. Not necessarily literal truth; yet even symbols and metaphors reflect something true about reality—like portraying angels with wings or saints with halos. Beauty itself was seen as [...]

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Book note: City of Man

Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner  were on this morning’s Focus on the Family broadcast discussing how Christians can and should engage today’s culture.  Much of the discussion was tied to material covered in their book: City of Man: Religion and Politics in the New Era. The discussion was worthwhile, and the book sounds like it [...]

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“Is this equality…?”

“…I never imagined that my skills as a lawyer would be used to defend Christians for following their faith in 21st Century Britain…”- Andrea Minichiello Williams. Full article here. (The article also “appeared in the Mail on Sunday on 24th April, 2011.”) hat tip: Alliance Alert

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Countries without abortion…

… are also the safest for mothers. Hats off to Chile, Poland, and Ireland. Well done. (If you haven’t watched the video embedded in the above-linked Thomas Peters’ post, I suggest you take a couple of minutes and watch. Delightful ads.)

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American Anthem for Life

An EWTN video of the Walk for Life West Coast. Cross-posted at Ladies for Life.

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