Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.
G.K. Chesterton once remarked that he found it funny, but not ultimately strange,…
July 4th, 2009 by Mark Shea
Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants of one another.
G.K. Chesterton once remarked that he found it funny, but not ultimately strange,…
July 4th, 2009 by Charles Colson
The great British intellectual G. K. Chesterton wrote that “America is the only nation in the world that is founded on [a] creed.”
Think about that for a moment. Other nations were founded on the basis of race, or by the…
July 3rd, 2009 by Charles Colson
At BreakPoint’s blog, The Point , we had a lively debate over church music—especially the now-common practice of bands performing during Sunday worship.
Much of the debate focused contemporary music versus traditional hymns. But one of our bloggers invited readers to consider…
July 3rd, 2009 by Mark Shea
Isaiah 64:8
Yet, O LORD, thou art our Father; we are the clay, and thou art our potter; we are all the work of thy hand.
Jane Studdock, the heroine of C.S. Lewis’ That Hideous Strength has a ghastly moment where she realizes…
July 3rd, 2009 by Daniel Pipes
"Iran is the world’s most conspiracy-minded country" I declared in my book, The Hidden Hand: Middle East Fears of Conspiracy . An entire chapter of that study focused on the Islamic revolution of 1978-79, documenting how "Regardless of political complexion, Iranians…
July 2nd, 2009 by Mark Shea
John 17:11
And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to thee. Holy Father, keep them in thy name, which thou hast given me, that they may be one, even…
July 2nd, 2009 by Charles Colson
Scientists at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, are discovering a potential cure for leukemia and sickle-cell disease. How? By using blood stem cells from the placentas of women who have had Caesarian deliveries.
But researchers at the hospital are frustrated. State…
July 1st, 2009 by Mark Shea
I came of age intellectually in the post-Vietnam, post-Watergate cynicism of the 1970s. I was taught by the prevailing winds of culture to believe love of country, pledges of allegiance, national anthems, and all that sort of thing were terribly…
July 1st, 2009 by George Weigel
Dear Dr. Diaz:
Congratulations on your nomination as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Having worked on a bipartisan basis with seven of your predecessors, in both calm and turbulent times, I’ve some ideas I hope might be of use to…
July 1st, 2009 by Mark Shea
John 15:11
These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full.
Every Christmas and Easter, American media pause from their clamor (”Coming up: Shocking Live Videos of Gruesome Mayhem, Fornication,…