"[William Peter] Blatty, author of both novel and film versions of the horror classic The Exorcist, is getting ready to launch a canonical suit against alma mater Georgetown University, calling U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ appearance as commencement speaker 'the last straw' in the school’s relinquishing of Catholic identity."

Read more: Kathleen Gilbert, LifeSiteNews.com

"Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so Marvel Comics announced they have their own headlines in mind."

Read more: Rich Johnston, Bleeding Cool

(H/T Jim Treacher)

"So, what does Scripture say about homosexual unions? And what bearing, if any, should Scripture have on the law? On both sides of the issue, believers are striving to determine how their faith should inform their political beliefs."

Read more: D. C. Innes and Lisa Sharon Harper, RELEVANT

"Forty-three dioceses, hospitals, schools, and church agencies today filed twelve lawsuits around the nation arguing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate violates religious freedom."

Read more: Kathryn Jean Lopez, The Corner, National Review Online

"When I co-wrote Besides the Bible, a collection of essays about books my co-authors and I think every Christian should read, our hopes for the project were modest. We wanted to encourage followers of Jesus to talk about books, especially the really good books."

Read more: John Pattison, Think Christian

"Contrary to conventional wisdom, religion has consistently been a major component of America’s foreign relations. From liberals like Clinton, Franklin Roosevelt, and Harry Truman to conservatives like Bush, Dwight Eisenhower, and Ronald Reagan, religion has been central to the conduct of America’s relations with the wider world."

Read more: Andrew Preston, Religion & Politics

"The danger, of course, is that in claiming to speak for a group it is easy to only reflect back what that group already wants to hear."

Read more: Matthew Lee Anderson, Mere Orthodoxy

"Until recently, we’ve only been able to guess about the actual psychological effects of fiction on individuals and society. But new research in psychology and broad-based literary analysis is finally taking questions about morality out of the realm of speculation."

Read more: Jonathan Gotschall, Boston Globe

"What the authorities and the media seem determined to suppress is that the hoodlum elements in many ghettoes launch coordinated attacks on whites in public places. If there is anything worse than a one-sided race war, it is a two-sided race war, especially when one of the races outnumbers the other several times over."

Read More: Thomas Sowell, TownHall.com

"I knew that God sends us to just the right time period in human history, that he sends us our families, but I don’t think that it clicked until this past week that he sends us our neighbors too."

Read more: Jennifer Fulwiler, Conversion Diary

"Such arrangements are not unusual, said Dr. Daniel Shapiro, the medical director of Reproductive Biology Associates of Atlanta. He estimated that at least three quarters of his center’s egg-freezing patients — more than 100 over the past two years — have parents who paid part or all of the bill."

Read more: Elissa Gootman, New York Times

"So if you wrestle with the idea of God, stop wrestling. Instead, go love someone. Drop your cynicism; fast from snark; hold a child's hand; embrace your grandmother tenderly; tell someone what he or she means to you; compliment your father. Choose one action a day that dislocates you from the center of your universe. Perhaps you might even try a starter prayer: 'I don't believe in you, but I'm willing to be wrong.'"

Read more: Tim Muldoon, Culture at the Crossroads, Patheos