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What the anxious West has failed to recognize in the Arab Spring is that the political transformations of the Middle East are the coming of age of a new Islamism.

According to Professor Marc Ellis, a critic of Israel and the American Jewish establishment, Baylor University’s new president Ken Starr is seeking to replace him with “a right-wing, Israel-loving Jew that would cement [Starr’s] reputation with the right wing…”

I say the following with great affection for the tradition that formed me. Listen, Rick Santorum. If you’re saying something that makes liberal Protestants go, “This again? Isn’t this getting a little… boring?” then you might need some new material.

“There are some among you,” the pope wrote, “who conceive of and desire a Church in America different from that which is in the rest of the world.” Apparently unconcerned that on this side of the ocean the word might have a more positive ring than he intended, he used the name by which this heresy had become known in Europe: Americanism.

The egregious breach of decency that led a Catholic parish priest to deny communion to a lesbian woman at her mother’s funeral has received widespread and well-deserved condemnation. Even the Archdiocese of Washington DC admitted that the priest had violated their policy.

Lucid visionary states have been sought by a wide variety of cultures, not just for the euphoria and freedom, but because they were believed capable of transforming and uplifting the individual to a divine level.

On the Parable of the Kosher Deli, contraception, and freedom of religion.

Super Tuesday recap.

Do Italian hackers truly hold the Vatican responsible for events that look place 500 years ago?

Be an Esther, or else.