My talk begins 35 mins in and ends with me leading the 3,500 assembled in singing “Amazing Grace”. No kidding.
Guess who snapped this photo below? None other than VP Joseph P. Biden, who of his own accord very graciously offered to take it for me! Amazing. I wonder how many photos there are of U.S. President’s taken by U. S. Vice Presidents?
The next SITC event is Feb. 9th! Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse will speak on “Can We Talk? Why the Same-Sex Marriage Issue Has Become So Toxic.” Register byclicking here.
Last weekend FoxNews analyst Brit Hume said something so beyond-the-pale that the outrage has been deafening.
Did he say Janet Napolitano was the love child of Susan Sontag and Elmer Fudd? Did he label the POTUS a “long-legged Mack Daddy”? Did he say that Adam Lambert was making him reconsider his position on Sharia Law? Those things would have been offensive — but he didn’t say any of them!
Then what did he say? Well, what he said was pretty bad, so if you are reading this aloud with kids around, you might want to tell them to go play with their Wii for a few minutes… Okay, are they out of the room? Great.
If you or anyone you know will be in the New York City area on May 18th, please join us for a spectacular Socrates in the City evening with the Chief Rabbi of the UK, Sir Jonathan Sacks. Former Prime MInister Tony Blair has called him “truly a towering figure in the intellectual life of Britain today.” For details and to register, please click here.
I had the privilege of knowing Fr. Richard John Neuhaus, who passed away in January. He spoke at Socrates in the City three years ago. Robbie George, who spoke at SITC two weeks ago, offers this eloquent tribute to Fr. Neuhaus in the online version of First Things.
He Threw It All Away By Robert P. George
Friday, March 20, 2009, 12:01 AM
In the early 1970s, Lutheran pastor Richard John Neuhaus was poised to become the nation’s next great liberal public intellectual—the Reinhold Niebuhr of his generation. He had going for him everything he needed to be not merely accepted but lionized by the liberal establishment. First, of course, there were his natural gifts as a thinker, writer, and speaker. Then there was a set of left-liberal credentials that were second to none. He had been an outspoken and prominent civil rights campaigner, indeed, someone who had marched literally arm-in-arm with his friend Martin Luther King. He had founded one of the most visible anti-Vietnam war organizations… (to read the rest of this article, click here.)
The next SITC event is Feb. 9th! Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse will speak on “Can We Talk? Why the Same-Sex Marriage Issue Has Become So Toxic.” Register by 
Last weekend FoxNews analyst Brit Hume said something so beyond-the-pale that the outrage has been deafening.
Here’s an interesting article from 
If you or anyone you know will be in the New York City area on May 18th, please join us for a spectacular Socrates in the City evening with the Chief Rabbi of the UK, Sir Jonathan Sacks. Former Prime MInister Tony Blair has called him “truly a towering figure in the intellectual life of Britain today.” For details and to register, please 
He Threw It All Away
“Eric Metaxas and the God Question” by Vicki J. Yiannias.