Aug 02 2010
Nathan brought my attention to this excellent summary in Vanity Fair of last night’s episode of Mad Men, the second of this fourth season. I think the part about Dr. Fay’s is especially enlightening. As avid fans of the show have by now noticed, though only two episodes into the season, Mad Men has taken [...]
Mar 07 2010
A marvelous piece on the morality behind music and the problem with much of pop music, from Roger Scruton. Excerpt: “The ways of poetry and music are not changed anywhere without change in the most important laws of the city.†So wrote Plato in The Republic (4.424c). And Plato is famous for having given what [...]
Feb 23 2010
I’m still working my way through it, but this essay by N.T. Wright on scriptural authority is so good I’m having trouble deciding what to excerpt for you. But here is an exceptionally good (and rather large) nugget: Let me offer you a possible model, which is not in fact simply an illustration but actually [...]
Jan 25 2010
… can be found here.  I was struck by the author’s point that both Protestantism’s Sola Scriptura and modern Catholicism’s (post-Newman) doctrinal development denies the material sufficiency of the early and medieval church’s understanding of tradition. Lane is saying that with Cardinal Henry Newman’s idea of the development of doctrine, tradition itself becomes materially insufficient because a [...]
Dec 04 2009
The Ochlophobist, in responding to comments on a post elsewhere, has put up an excellent articulation of the orthodox Christian view of homosexuality, as well as insightful comments on its place in our culture. I concur in all he has to say; go check it out.
Dec 01 2009
This is a provoking–though hardly determinative–finding that suggests humans have by nature instincts for group cohesion, empathy, and morals. Is this part of the natural law?
Nov 12 2009
Well this is rather good news! Let’s hope we see a return to a real economy.
Oct 19 2009
For an excellent summation of the orthodox Christian explanation of Christology, I highly recommend this piece at philorthodox.
Oct 07 2009
Somewhat in the mold of the traditional speech at my alma mater, read a great exposition of this question here.
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