Ideology is the Enemy of True Faith
Events at the college where I teach have me thinking about the ersatz religion known as ideology.
Answering Atheists Arguments
Dinesh D'Souza's recent article in the Christian Science Monitor stirred up a hornets nest of response from atheists. Todays atheists, D'Souza discovered from their missives, are a scrappy, disputatious bunch. The following article is his response to some of their assertions.
Islam: A Primer
In January 2002 a group of journalists gathered at the Pier House in Key West, Florida, at the invitation of the Ethics and Public Policy Center for a two-day seminar. Its purpose was to enhance journalistic understanding of current religious and cultural issues. The session from which this "Conversation" is drawn featured Harvard historian Roy Mottahedeh, with a response by journalist Jay Tolson.
Blaming the Wartime Pope
During the second world war, Pope Pius XII was lauded for his singular efforts to halt the carnage, writes Newsweek's Kenneth Woodward.
Craftsmanship vs. Money-Making
The spirit of the craft, which should supply our primary approach and practice of human work, has bowed to the god of profit.
History and Self-Perpetuating Resentment
One of the most important but least acknowledged psychological factors that affects a person's way of being in the world is his conception of history.
From Bach to Biber Before Crossing the Tiber
How one musician found her way into the Church.
Conan Doyle's Through the Magic Door
When Dr Watson first describes the character of Sherlock Holmes, he presents the man who is soon to become his friend as a complete philistine where literature and philosophy are concerned.
A Politically Correct Apartheid
It is surely one of the objects of literature to make us conversant, from the inside as it were, of the situation of others...
What I Believe
A miracle we no longer even see, so commonplace it has become, is that no human face, despite the numbers that exist and have existed, reproduces another human face.