St. John Henry Newman’s view opens new horizons in the world of poetry, literature, film, and the arts in general. Seeing the world “the Newman way” would be energizing and uplifting.
Want to buy an Ivy League grad’s ova to give Junior a leg up on brains? Not a problem—though it’s going to cost you. And with the ongoing normalization of “family formation” as an intentional act rather than a biological relationship, the trend will only grow stronger.
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has this year closed its foreign mission agency. This move is a sign of the denomination’s financial struggles, but it is also the logical outworking of the kind of squeamishness about missionary work that the religious pluralism of the PCUSA engenders.
Often, when a piece of religious research attracts media attention for its eye-popping stats, it’s fairly easy to see what—or who—has gone wrong. This time around, however, it’s not so easy.
In our time, and especially in Germany, attempts at finding the middle ground, at being centered or balanced—qualities that Robert Barron embodies academically and temperamentally—are deemed irresponsible at best and dangerous at worst.
