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At the Weekly Standard, Matt Labash looks at a new compliation of gospel music and does a bit of comparison with CCM THERE ARE ALL SORTS OF GRAND THEMES running through Goodbye, Babylon: deliverance and judgement, mortal expiration and eternal salvation. Many secular critics haven’t quite gotten past the buckets of blood, alluded to in…

From Opinion Journal Sex, childbearing and marriage now have no necessary connection to one another, because the biological connection between sex and childbearing is controllable. The fundamental basis for marriage has thus been technologically obviated. Pair that development with rampant, easy divorce without social stigma, and talk in 2004 of “saving marriage” is pretty specious.…

I admit that I haven’t followed the recent controversies over the Presidential Council on Bioethics, Leon Kass and changes in personnel. But I did read with interest, this review of a book of analysis from the Council, edited by Kass, and reviewed here by Edward Rothstein. Many council sessions (www.bioethics.gov/transcripts/transcripttopic.html) involve more traditional material: comments…

The Globe reviews a new book on the sexual abuse scandal On the other side of the ledger, France’s righteous zeal for the survivors/victims also leads him, now and then, to rely on hyperbole and interpretive liberties that serve, unfortunately, to weaken his credibility. Alcoholism, we are told, “ran endemic” among the nuns and priests…
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