Surprisingly good article on the Resurrection in Newsweek by Jon Meacham (via Get Religion): Yet the journey from Golgotha to Constantine, the fourth-century emperor whose conversion secured the supremacy of Christianity in the West, was anything but simple; the rise of the faith was, as the Duke of Wellington said of Waterloo, “the nearest-run thing…

My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me? Why are You so far from helping Me, And from the words of My groaning? O My God, I cry in the daytime,but You do not hear; And in the night season,and am not silent. But You are holy, Enthroned in the praises of Israel. Our…

CT has an excerpt from Stanley Hauerwas’ latest – Cross-Shattered Christ: Meditations On the Seven Last Words. The Gospel of John makes explicit what all the Gospels assume—that is, the cross is not a defeat but the victory of our God. Earlier in the Gospel of John a voice from heaven responded to Jesus’ request…

For what it’s worth. Here’s Jacob Hornberger (okay, he’s really more of a libertarian, but still): The issue in the Terri Schiavo case is not whether the Florida district court originally entered a correct judgment or not. The issue is whether this is a nation in which the American people are going to continue permitting…

Another item from today’s Inquirer: Santorum shifting on a key issue: Sen. Rick Santorum (R., Pa), a longtime supporter of the death penalty, says he is reexamining his stance but not to the point of saying it is wrong in all cases. “I still support the death penalty, but what I’m suggesting is, number one,…

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy opens in a little over a month. They have a pretty nifty website here. (One question: where is Zaphod’s second head??)

The Inquirer has an article this morning discussing various religious groups’ responses to the Schiavo case. As you might expect, Philadelphia’s Cardinal Justin Rigali condemns the removal of Ms. Schiavo’s feeding tube as an unequivocally “evil” act. Reform Rabbi and medical ethicist Mark Washofsky said “A person need not be at the doorway of death…

Speaking of the Schiavo case, in today’s Inquirer analyst Dick Polman writes that it’s emblematic of the GOP’s shift from the party of limited government to the party of using the federal government to enforce a particular morality: Barry Goldwater said in 1964, “I fear Washington and centralized government more than I do Moscow.” Ronald…

I have nothing of substance to add to the debate (there’s plenty of that elsewhere). I did think this article today at Slate was pretty good. It’s by Harriet McBryde Johnson who is a disability-rights lawyer in South Carolina. One thing in particular she says is worth highlighting: Despite the unseemly Palm Sunday pontificating in…

I’ve been reading Ronald Radosh’s Prophets on the Right: Profiles of Conservative Critics of American Globalism in which Radosh discusses the views of the “isolationist” conservatives of the World War I & II eras. The book, a sympathetic portrayal of its subjects, was written during Radosh’s “New Left” phase, before he went neocon and started…