Tom at Disputations puts the smackdown on a specious attempt by Linda Chavez to justify torture (and bashes the Jesuits a bit for good measure).

Photos from the upcoming movie Walk the Line (also starring the very fetching Reese Witherspoon as June Carter Cash). Not sure if Phoenix has the gravitas to pull it off. I’ll reserve judgment til I see the film. (via Thunderstruck)

Here’s a moving story by Sojourners‘ Jim Wallis about reconciling with a fellow evangelical and political opposite: The experience of my relationship with Bill Bright has taught me much about the promise and power of reconciliation. I will never again deny the prospect of coming together with those with whom I disagree. It is indeed…

This looks good. Haven’t read the whole thing yet. (via Amy Welborn)

The post from Keith at ATR on the political significance of the sacraments reminded me of this essay by Peter Leithart from a few years ago. The problem with injecting politics into the church’s worship, according to Leithart, is that it presupposes that worship, considered in itself, is apolitical: My insistence on the inseparability of…

If you go to the Amazon page for The Hauerwas Reader and scroll down you will see this: Customers who shopped for this item also shopped for these items: After Christendom? How the Church Is to Behave If Freedom, Justice, and a Christian Nation Are Bad Ideas by Stanley Hauerwas With the Grain of the…

Non-libertarian Matthew Yglesias weighs in on the running debate between interventionist and non-interventionist libertarians: Making war is a massive deployment of the state’s coercive force, both against the target population and (in order to acquire the necessary warmaking resources) the warmaking nation’s home population. All ideological points-of-view represented in contemporary American society involve some skepticism…

Well, someone has been blogging up a storm at the Japery. (Is “Father Jape” a collective nome de blog for various contributors? That’s my suspicion…) Anyway, here we have a response to S. M. Huthchen’s piece on C. S. Lewis’ Protestantism (which I mentioned the other day). Fr. Jape notes the obsession many evangelicals and…

Keith at Among the Ruins meditates on how Christians should exercise power in the world: …I tend to shy away from any blending of the church with political power because I believe that it is inherently dangerous and almost always corrupting for the church. But, at the same time, I am not ready to give…

What slippery slope?