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Jan 10, 2025 | 
conservativereview.com | Beverly Willett
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
freeread.causeaction.com | Beverly Willett
We support our Publishers and Content Creators. You can view this story on their website by CLICKING HERE. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul gave cheating spouses an early Christmas present, signing a bill repealing a long-standing statute that made adultery a misdemeanor. She called the law “silly” and “outdated.” Past efforts to kill the bill and others like it had been shot down for fear lawmakers would be criticized for endorsing infidelity. But isn’t that essentially what Hochul has done?
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
conservativereview.com | Beverly Willett
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Beverly Willett
Featured PostTo anti-Zionists I say is it not conceivable establishment of Israel was itself the product of divine intervention? Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse,Report this post.
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May 15, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Burke Nixon |Thomas Geoghegan |Beverly Willett |Sharon Mesmer
Every few years, from childhood until my late teens, my granddad would take me along with him to the small Texas town where he grew up—Normangee, population 522—to visit old relatives and even older graves. The drive took us up I-45, beyond the Houston sprawl, past pine forests, and eventually through Huntsville, epicenter of the state prison system.
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May 9, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Ariana Orozco |Thomas Geoghegan |Beverly Willett |Sharon Mesmer
“Where you go I will go my friend / Where you go I will go / Your people are my people / Your people are mine…” A nightly song hummed on as hundreds of Columbia University students linked arms on the school’s south lawn to protest the university’s investments in Israel. As some students sang adjusted lyrics from the Book of Ruth in the Hebrew Bible, others performed a Palestinian dabkeh dance, banged Malian djembe drums, and scraped Dominican güiras.
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May 7, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Paul Moses |Thomas Geoghegan |Beverly Willett |Sharon Mesmer
When investigators in Henrico County, Virginia searched twenty-three-year-old Xavier Lopez’s bedroom, they photographed a large Nazi flag hanging vertically on the wall, with a crucifix and rosary fastened above the swastika. But that wasn’t what prompted police and federal agents to arrest Lopez in the case that led to what’s been dubbed the FBI’s “anti-Catholic memo.”Rather, the issue was the weapons Lopez had accumulated in violation of federal law.
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May 2, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Griffin Oleynick |Thomas Geoghegan |Beverly Willett |Sharon Mesmer
One of the misconceptions about Judaism is that the religion is concerned primarily with justice and the law, not love and grace. That’s precisely backward, argues Rabbi Shai Held, president and dean of the Hadar Institute in New York and author of the new book Judaism Is About Love. Jewish theology, spirituality, and ethics emerge as free responses to a generous, loving God.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Brad East |Thomas Geoghegan |Beverly Willett |Sharon Mesmer
In seven years, the Church will celebrate the 1,600-year anniversary of the Council of Ephesus, the third of seven great ecumenical councils common to East and West. The Council came at a time of civil and ecclesial unrest. Rome had been sacked in 410; in 430, St Augustine died as Vandals besieged the walls of Hippo. The controversies of the previous century over Christ and the Trinity were more or less settled. As ever, however, settled business begets more business.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
commonwealmagazine.org | Alexander Stern |Thomas Geoghegan |Beverly Willett |Sharon Mesmer
When I described using the new Apple Vision Pro virtual-reality headset to my mother, she said, “Maybe they come out with all these gadgets so that old people won’t feel so bad about having to die.” From friends I heard similar, if less morbid, reservations. “They should just stop with technology. It’s enough already.” “I want nothing to do with this.”Of course, it’s not unusual for technological innovation to be met with criticism.
