What “progressive economic vision” should CST lead us to endorse? This is a thorny, vexed question, and in particular, I think it is infected by a kind of nostalgia for “the good old days” – that is, the days of rising wages and...
Read MoreIf you don’t know that the new Star Trek movie is coming out tomorrow (technically tonight at midnight), you are not a Trekkie. If don’t know there has been an on-again, off-again leak that the villain in the new movie is Khan...
Read MoreIn this month’s Atlantic, Jonathan Rauch profiles Dr. Angelo Volandes’ work to change the way Americans approach death. After realizing that most people facing end of life decisions did not really understand what...
Read More“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to bring glad tidings to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a...
Read MoreOn April 18th, the “Naked Pope” made a parade appearance at Carnegie Mellon University’s carnival. The “naked pope”, if you have not heard, was “a female student dressed as the pope, appeared naked from the waist down and...
Read MoreOver at the Evangelical Channel on Patheos, Adrian Warnock is hosting a conversation about faith and mental illness in honor of the fact that May is Mental Health Awareness month. Throughout the month, I hope to post blogs to...
Read MoreThe death toll from the recent collapse of a clothing factory in Bangladesh has topped 1000, and yesterday brought the story of another fire in a large, 11-story factory. Most workers were gone, but those still there suffocated...
Read MoreActs 1:1-11 Psalm 47 Ephesians 1:17-23 Luke 24:46-53 Let’s be honest: it is hard to delve too deeply into the feast of the Ascension without sounding either like a gnostic or a mythologizer. On the one hand, you could say that...
Read MoreRegrettably, the topic of infanticide remains stubbornly in the news. Last week, for instance, we had the release of the LiveAction undercover tapes which seemed to indicate that newborns are at least sometimes refused medical...
Read MoreKnown for elaborate and exciting production, the Metropolitan Opera in New York exudes drama. In a year that celebrates major anniversaries for both Verdi and Wagner, the MET launched new productions of classics like Rigoletto...
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