by Beth Allison Barr | Jun 11, 2019 | Opinion
Roman policy regarding independently wealthy women shifted during the Second Punic Wars when a law was passed in 215 BCE to restrict female property ownership and wealth. As I shared previously, the mindset contributing to such restrictions was revealed in a speech by...
by Beth Allison Barr | Jun 10, 2019 | Opinion
A defeated and cash-strapped Rome passed a new law in 215 BCE. The context was their greatest military defeat ever. As the first century Roman historian Livy cried, “Certainly, there is no other nation that would not have succumbed beneath such a weight of calamity.”...
by Agnes Howard | Jun 5, 2019 | Opinion
Someday, soon perhaps, the Juul electronic cigarette will pass into the heap of cast-off youth fads, and we may breathe sighs of relief once that’s over. Until then, fuel for wild-eyed screeds against the product needs to come from somewhere. Religious and moral...
by Philip Jenkins | Sep 14, 2018 | Opinion
Hollywood normally does a poor job of portraying religion or comprehending regular religious practice – especially Christianity. I commented on this recently, but this post concerns the dilemma of just how acute those difficulties need to be before the film or TV...
by Agnes Howard | Aug 24, 2018 | Opinion
Can theology fix the college-party scene? In a recent book, “College Hookup Culture and Christian Ethics,” Jennifer Beste, Koch Chair for Catholic Thought and Culture at the College of Saint Benedict, proposes theology as the remedy for what’s wrong with the...
