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There has been some discussion of this article on Mother Teresa . I don't really have all that much to say on it; it's old news. See...

James Hrynshyn has a post in which he notes a passage in which Christopher Hitchens defends his rhetoric in God Is Not Great by appeal to ...

Charles Larmore has a good review of Alasdair MacIntyre's The Tasks of Philosophy (vol. 1 & 2). In the course of discussing MacInt...

If, Honoratus, a heretic and a man trusting heretics seemed to me one and the same, I should judge it my duty to remain silent both in tongu...

* Mark Lilla has an interesting discussion in the NY Times on political theology , from his new book, The Stillborn God ( ht ). It makes fo...

A distinction can sometimes be made in the apocalypse genre between dark apocalypses and gentle apocalypses; they both exhibit the Final Jud...

Donder-thunder-donner-rain Donder-thunder-donner-rain: The clouds grow dark; they grumble, crash; the tongues of storm, those sparks of ligh...