Monthly Archives: June 2016

Michael Brendan Doughherty over at The Week writes an interesting review of Mary Eberstadt’s book It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemies. This is a good complement to the David P. Goldman link I provided yesterday. Dougherty writes: … Continue reading →

Here a links to a couple of interesting pieces I read on the Internet today about the challenges facing Christians. Rod Dreher reports on a sermon by Southern Baptist Russell Moore at a conference he attended.  I especially liked these … Continue reading →

I read the transcript of the Pope’s interview on the plane yesterday and I have looked at the mainstream media coverage of his response to his call for the Catholics to apologize to the gay community.  The transcript of the … Continue reading →

A sober reflection in the aftermath of Orlando over a Catholic World Report by Fr. James Schall. Here is an excerpt but please go read the whole thing: Orlando—like San Bernardino, Fort Hood, the Spanish trains, the Paris concert hall, … Continue reading →

McGill University Professor of Christian Thought Douglas Farrow looks at the relationship of Canada’s legal regime to any underlying moral law now that Canada’s Parliament has passed a euthanasia and assisted suicide law.   The whole piece is worth reading and … Continue reading →

Ines San Martin has an interesting article over at Crux about a recent Q & A with Pope Francis at a conference in the Rome diocese. Here’s an excerpt, with my emphases: The pope said that Catholics can’t analyze situations … Continue reading →

Fr George Rutler over at Crisis Magazine writes about denial in relation to the shooting in Orlando in the context of civilizational decline. Denial is the typical first stage of learning that one is dying, and that applies to our … Continue reading →

Here’s another account of a recent lunch Pope Francis hosted with a group of  charismatic Protestants. Kris Vallatton writes (with my emphases): Mike Bickle gets the “guts” award! Everything was going quite smoothly, partly because of the benign questions the … Continue reading →

The World Evangelical Alliance’s Global Ambassador Brian Stiller who I’ve known since the 1990s when I was an evangelical myself and working at the Canadian public broadcaster as a television producer.  Brian was then president of the Evangelical Fellowship of … Continue reading →

Fr. Brandon O’Brien has a thoughtful piece about Europe over at Crisis Magazine that is well worth reading. The question is, how do we revive the roots of Western Civilization?   What is my responsibility?   Yours? Right worship is one key, … Continue reading →