Conservative Index

Human Events Online gives a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries: HUMAN EVENTS asked a panel of 15 conservative scholars and public policy leaders to help us compile a list of the Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Each panelist nominated a number of [...]

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Pope Pledges to End Orthodox Rift

CNN reports Pope pledges to end Orthodox rift: “I want to repeat my willingness to assume as a fundamental commitment working to reconstitute the full and visible unity of all the followers of Christ, with all my energy,” he said to applause from the estimated 200,000 people at the Mass. Words aren’t enough, he said, [...]

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Personhood Backwards and Forwards and Monergism’s Essence

Kevin replies to my “Till . . . We Have Faces” in his “Masks and Modes.” As his reply unfolds along two lines of thought, so, too, will my reply. 1. Personhood Backwards and Forwards Kevin goes to some lengths to defend himself from my charges of modalism. Unfortunately, the way he does so leaves [...]

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Top Ten Conservative Colleges

Young America’s Foundation recently (last fall) compiled their list of the Top Ten Conservative Colleges. Unlike the MSN Encarta lists, this one is serious-for-real. These colleges embody, so thinks YAF, real conservative princples (and not just political ones). A description accmpanies each. From the YAF page: In the market of American colleges and universities, a [...]

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His Eminence, Metropolitan PHILIP: On the Hope for Orthodox Unity in America

From the OCF’s most recent issue of The Basil Leaf: After thirty-nine years in the Episcopacy, I have become convinced that Orthodox unity in America must begin on the grass roots level. You, the laity, and in particular the young adult laity, are the conscience of the Church and the defenders of the faith. Consequently, [...]

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Abstinence and Natural Family Planning Links

Though I am initially impressed with the following links, I haven’t thoroughly reviewed all the following, aside from the Orthodox NFP link, particularly for theological content. Caveat lector. Orthodox Natural Family Planning Association Abstinence Clearinghouse One More Soul Couple to Couple League

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The Fatherhood Chronicles LXVI

Baby Healy Number 2 Update Well, Anna saw the midwife last Friday. Things are looking great so far. We’ve got about five weeks to go and the baby is already in position. Head down low, back toward Anna’s right. It’s kinda freaky to be able to feel around Anna’s tummy and recognize, “Oh, that’s his [...]

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Classics Links

Classical Christian Homeschooling: Introduction to Classical Education American Classical League Great Books Index Loeb Classical Library Ioci Antiqui homepage (ancient jokes in Latin and Greek) Curculio The Latin Library YLE Radio 1 – Nuntii Latini (The news in Latin; audio)

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Ethics and Sextus Empiricus

Sextus Empiricus lived in the late second, early third centuries AD. He was a physician and a philosopher, and the last of the followers of Pyrrho of Elis (fourth/third century BC), an early Greek sceptic. One of Sextus’ works, Outlines of Pyrrhonism (or here) (Gr. Purroneioi Hupotuposeis), is most known for this formulation of the [...]

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Sextus Empiricus

I’m now into my paper on Sextus Empiricus. I was undecided as to my paper topic until yesterday. I decided to focus on the Pyrrhonian suspension of judgment with regard to ethics, and, with that, on the “sceptical mode of life.” A couple of interesting links to give some historical context and an overview of [...]

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