In All Things

This Slate article on IVF appeared a few weeks ago but is worth revisiting for the ethical questions it raises The author makes the case that fertility doctors should encourage couples struggling to have children to go straight to IVF rather than first trying fertility medication and then art

Cambridge MA — I am still deciding how to blog and it will take a while to figure out what I can write — that America readers will find interesting But I am sure that I must write of and from what I know and central to this has to be also my teaching and my scholarly writing I will have am

Hmmmm like Tom Beaudoin I too have never blogged Unlike Tom perhaps and anyone reading this blog I don t typically read blogs I ve perused skimmed is more precise only a handful and generally I ve only done that when a blog entry is embedded in an on-line article To be honest

Last night CBS reran The Mystery of Christmas which cast doubt or at least tried to on some of the more popular parts of the Christmas narratives including the shepherds the magi and so on Ben Witherington III professor of New Testament at Asbury Theological Seminary did his usual fi

The America review of the controversial movie The Golden Compass is now out and can be found here The review focuses both on Phillip Pullman s novels and on the film which opened strongly but suffered an enormous drop in per-screen viewers after its first week Was its failure due to a

In case you missed it here s the latest news about our latest convert whose desire to become a Roman Catholic has been long rumored on both sides of the Pond Blair was received into the church by Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O Connor on Friday In the next issue of America dated Jan 7 2008 A

As America nears its 100th anniversary in April 2009 the magazine will be celebrating in a variety of ways both large and small One part of our celebration we re particularly excited about is the America Essay Contest Thanks to a generous donor we will be awarding 3 000 to the writer who mak

Cambridge Ma — Advent and Christmas perhaps even more than other religious holidays are at first a bit awkward at Harvard even at the Divinity School where I teach While custom and the academic calendar combine to maintain the sense that December is a festive time there is little room for

I love it when I see converging ideas in separate fields In recent work in theology and evolutionary psychology there has been a new emphasis upon the centrality of relationship In Elizabeth A Johnson s wonderful new book on God Quest for the Living God she has a chapter on the Trinity atten

The Pope s cat Chico has written a new book called Joseph and Chico A Cat Tells the Life of Pope Benedict XVI which will be published by Ignatius Press in March From the press release In this beautifully illustrated book for children Chico the cat describes the life of his best