A conservative critique of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki from Bill Luse. (via Paul Cella)

By day, I shop for organic produce in local health food stores and farmers’ markets. I talk with people about what’s in season, new vegan recipes, the next fermented food craze, and how to displaced cooked, junk foods – excuse the redundancy – in our families’ diets. I meet many people who are trying to…

The American Conservative has published it’s endorsements for the presidential election. Those fractious paleos just couldn’t agree on one candidate! Unfortunately, this election does not offer traditional conservatives an easy or natural choice and has left our editors as split as our readership. In an effort to deepen our readers’ and our own understanding of…

Bill Keezer and Kevin the Big Hominid both have good posts on the intersection of religion and politics. In response to Kevin’s question about whether it’s possible to separate one’s religion from one’s political beliefs and actions, I’m inclined to say it’s not. If my conscience is well-formed by my tradition, how can I somehow…

If American conservatism is individualist social-contract theory combined with anti-statism, then it has very little in common with Christianity, according to James W. Skillen: George F. Will, drawing from what he considers “the best political book in years” (John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge’s The Right Nation), writes in a recent column that “the emotions underlying…

This is a very powerful movie based on the experiences of Allied POWs in a Japanese prison camp during WWII. These men lived under horrific conditions and were forced to construct a railroad between Thailand and Burma. The heart of the film, though, is in the prisoners’ struggle to maintain their dignity by studying philosophy,…

Via Michael Gilleland comes this sermon from Fr. Jim Tucker – “A Primer on Prayer.” I’ve found that many pastors seem averse to offering this kind of “nuts and bolts” advice on living the Christian life. But some of us are in great need of it!

Recently, I spoke to an audience of college kids. The subject was our president. For 20 minutes or so, I gave them my assessment of George W. Bush, that he is a spoiled rich kid who wasted his youth partying with his frat-boy buddies and then woke up one morning and decided to become president.…

Last week I attended a discussion at our church on “Christians and the Upcoming Election.” The featured speaker was Rev. Philip Krey, the president of the Lutheran Theological Seminary here in Philadelphia. The purpose of this gathering was not to decide on one candidate or the other, but to clarify the context in which Christians,…

Various bloggers have weighed in on the issue of voting. One of the more thoughtful is Tom at Disputations who has done a series of posts from his Catholic perspective (there are lots of good posts from Oct 7th to today). Also, Among the Ruins has several worthwhile posts (here, here and here). Link via…