John Allen has interesting interviews posted today – they are excerpted in his column, with full texts elsewhere on the NCR site: First is a conversation with a Peruvian evangelical scholar of religion: What explains the growth of Protestantism in Latin America? One way of explaining it would be the pastoral failure of the Catholic…

It is also the memorial of St. Helena, mother of Constantine, finder of the True Cross. Mike Aquilina has a post up with a link to his review of Waugh’s novel about her: People often ask me the best way to enter imaginatively into the world of the Fathers. I can’t think of a more…

Many have blogged about the BBC presenter’s proclamations this week about burdens – when she becomes a burden, she’ll kill herself, and she’s double mad that, after getting her independence and stuff, she’s having to care for aging parents. Aimee Milburn, the fine blogger at Historical Christian, discusses the mindset behind this kind of talk.…

By Christine Gardner of Wheaton, in today’s WSJ: Some evangelicals charge that the Pill has contributed to the moral breakdown of society; perhaps, but evangelicals’ embrace of the contraception culture has not helped. It may have made Christianity sexier to potential adherents but diminished a public understanding of marriage in the process. For evangelicals, this…

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