Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Rod Dreher

Via a New Scientist blog, here’s a nifty notice of the stage play “Re: Design,” built on the real-life 40-year correspondence between Charles Darwin and his friend, Harvard botanist Asa Gray, who accepted Darwin’s theory of evolution without losing his religious faith. Excerpt: As a piece of theatre, Re: Design stands in contrast to Creation,…

Ross Douthat says that it makes sense that the U.S. government is abandoning manned space exploration, at least for the time being. He approvingly quotes John Derbyshire, who says: From the beginnings of modern science in the late 17th century, all the major European nations offered state support to societies and academies of pure research.…

David Rieff is just back from India, and finds America to be sleepwalking its way to a bad place. Excerpt: It is in the manufacturing of an ersatz reality based on lies–or, in our present case, on the eliding of the distinction between lies and truth–that people come to connive in their own misrule. The…

Niall Ferguson says the fiscal black hole that is Greece may not be merely a Eurozone problem. As goes Greece, so go we all. Excerpt: For the world’s biggest economy, the US, the day of reckoning still seems reassuringly remote. The worse things get in the eurozone, the more the US dollar rallies as nervous…

Woke up this morning to the shocking, awful news that an old friend was killed yesterday in a car crash near New Orleans. Gerard was taking his parents, who also died, home from the doctor. Police today booked a woman with three counts of negligent homicide in the hit-and-run accident. Knowing the kind of man…

David Schaengold finds the skyscraper to be the emblematic building of the age of science, and the observation deck on some of them to be akin to a cathedral’s high altar. Excerpt: Nothing like the scientific method was found in antiquity, and what glimmers of it appeared in the Middle Ages were feeble. The systematic…

We didn’t get cable TV when we moved to Philly. Julie figured that because we only used it in Dallas for news, PBS Kids and the occasional Nickelodeon show, it was a waste of money to get it here. She’s right, especially because we stay well-informed on news via the Internet and public radio. (The…

After last night’s bleak post about man’s inhumanity to man, I wanted to counter with a post about something awesome: man’s capacity for forgiveness and healing. On my Templeton-Cambridge seminar last summer, my friend and colleague Amy Sullivan presented a project about forgiveness in Rwanda after the genocide. The story she told about what she…

We have a snow day off today. How am I spending it? Doing a good deed: teaching my oldest son how to play Diplomacy. I played it a lot in boarding school, and totally loved it, but haven’t been able to find anybody interested in it since then (and I’ve got no interest in playing…

We need someone who wants to be the web manager for the John Templeton Foundation, a job that will entail working closely with me in running the online magazine we’re going to launch later this year. Here are the details for the job, and a link for sending your CV. Experience managing the web is…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners