Via Mere Comments and Orthodoxy Today: The Antiochian Orthodox Church has withdrawn from the National Council of Churches.
Good job, yo? It’s a sad thing to have to part company with something that sounds like good medicine for this ailing world, but why is it that when these organizations go nationwide and worldwide, they always start […]

What the heck, might as well talk about the Harry Potter book for a minute. It takes my mind off the terrible problems of the day and you can probably only find reviews in 3,000,005 other places on the Web.
So I’ll start off by saying that this one really doesn’t take your mind off the […]

Am I a dunce for thinking that the question of whether or not to explore stem cell research is a foregone conclusion if you’re pro-life?
Apparently so, because House Majority Leader Bill Frist is pro-life, and he’s made news today by coming out in favor of stem cell research. This NYTimes story covers it […]

The UK police are reporting now that the man they shot and killed was not connected to either of the subway bombings. Oh no. This is bad.
By the way, I read somewhere online that the police are saying the things left at the sites of the unsuccessful bombings will provide a lot of worthwhile […]

Yesterday, reporters had the unbelievable gall to ask Tony Blair if he thought was responsible for terrorism, and got the usual mild reply:
Well, I think I said to you before, that I feel that people who are responsible for doing these things are the people who do them.
Then the Australian Prime Minister John […]

London has a problem. As soon as they’re certain of that, I suppose they’ll do something. Apparently acting like nothing had changed wasn’t a good ruse.

Frederica Mathewes-Green explains some of the reasons why we Orthodox look like such fusspots on the question of Catholic and Orthodox unity H E R E .
So we’ve got two different definitions of “unity.” Is “unity” membership in a common institution or a bond of shared belief?
As Frederica tells it, the Catholics have no problem […]

Dang — didn’t it seem like a quiet morning? Bush announced last night that he was nominating John Roberts to the Supreme Court position, and all the Democrats said, “. . . . . ” By which I infer they wanted to say, ” . . . .???”
It’s almost as if Bush took me […]

As I mentioned to Steven Paul last week, I was disappointed in the episode of “Penn & Teller’s [Horse-hockey]” (there! I’m getting closer to the real name) last Monday that dealt with ghost-hunters.
Yes, they made them look like idiots. Yes, by extension, they made a case that anybody that would take them seriously […]

I must be the only dolt in the world who wasn’t counting down the minutes until the new Harry Potter book arrived.

It was already in grocery stores yesterday marked 25%-40% off, which just gives you an idea how ridiculously high the retail price must be. So I will go ahead and read this one […]