Jace Yarbrough: Men like my grandfather and Humphrey Bogart give us a glimpse of the right relationship between goodness and shrewdness.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

“Six days shalt thou labour;” who would have thought that Protestants (with their acclaimed work ethic) needed reminding of that?

Kevin Vance What’s a good, culturally sensitive westerner to do when culture seems to prevent some Africans from heeding his advice to practice “safe sex”? This is the conundrum that was recently illustrated in a New York Times feature titled “Cultural Attitudes and Rumors Are Lasting Obstacles to Safe Sex.” I expected a long litany [...]

Kevin Vance In light of the recent health-care debate, Edward Feser has posted a useful primer on the concept of “rights” in Catholic moral theology: