To read Ross Douthat’s latest NY Times column, click here. It’s a wonderful column, and it’s extraordinary to think that their deaths were separated by a mere thirteen days. For more on the “pro-life Kennedy” click here.
This week my friend Terry Mattingly’s column is about Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who started the Special Olympics and died recently, at eighty-eight. Amazing. And click here to see more at Terry’s super-fab blog, www.GetReligion.org.
An essay from the inestimably talented J. Bottum. Click here.
Right here in Manhattan, my wife, Susanne, runs the MPSC (Midtown Pregnancy Support Center) a non-political, non-profit Christian organization that offers help of all kinds to women (and families) that find themselves in “crisis pregnancies.” The stories one hears from such women can be incredibly moving; but what’s most striking to me is that one never seems to hear these stories — of real women, making real decisions in difficult circumstances — anywhere in the popular culture, neither on tv nor in the so-called main-stream media. Here’s one such story from the online site for First Things.