1. The Generosity of Tolkien
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...s of Hebrew prophets and Christian theologians. The grandsons of the Viking raiders began to bind themselves to the Ten Commandments and Augustine's Just War doctrine.   Tolkien saw in this ...

2. Back to School
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...ious.   Indeed, whatever else Christ may have done, according to this very common view, He reduced all the Ten Commandments to just One Commandment: that "you mustn't judge people."...

3. Speaking Well of the Dead
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

... you can do for your school." He absorbed the words until he felt free to modify them, as he also did with the Ten Commandments. His extended family may now be in the process of doing the same ev...

4. Hallowed Be Thy Name
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...ety has always seen a colossal significance in names, and nowhere moreso than in the Name of God Himself. Among the Ten Commandments (and well before you get to the natural-law stuff about killing, ad...

5. Scenes from a Home Bible Study About Abraham and Issac
(MyBlog/MyBlog)

...ve Abraham the ultimate test, the one that would be the hardest thing for him to do." "But what about the Ten Commandments? What about not killing? What about Cain killing Abel? You told me ...

6. Prayers by Heart
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

... many cases stayed with them down the years.   I too learned things by heart: At school we were taught the Ten Commandments this way, and the Magnificat, and various Psalms ("The Lord is...

7. On the Trail of the Ark
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...the shekinah, or "presence."   The Ark was constructed as a carrying case for the tablets of the Ten Commandments -- the same tablets that Moses carried down from the mountain. Ther...

8. The Beatitudes
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

  Over Lent, we took a good long look at one of the legs of Catholic moral teaching: the Ten Commandments.   Some people have the notion that the Ten Commandments are pretty much all y

9. The Ninth Commandment
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

  As we come to the Ninth Commandment, we again arrive in disputed territory. As you will recall, the Ten Commandments can be and have been split up differently so as to yield ten and not eleve

10. The Eighth Commandment
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...d reminds us of the gravity of betraying it. Typically for a culture that is dominated by the idea of covenant, the Ten Commandments relate the idea of truthfulness to community. The commandment is no...

11. The Fifth Commandment
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...life is the Minimum Daily Adult Requirement approach to Catholic moral teaching. This involves that notion that the Ten Commandments describe the uppermost limits of human achievement. So, for instanc...

12. The Fourth Commandment
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...nconvenient parents, that lesson will, I fear, be acted upon. That's a world in which all our improvements upon the Ten Commandments will be tested by fire and found wanting. The remedy, as ever, is h...

13. The 1.5th Commandment
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

    The tricky thing about the Ten Commandments is figuring out how to break them up. The original Hebrew text refers to them as (pedantry alert!) the "Ten Words" but doesn't d

14. The First Commandment
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

... We need to do better than that in the game of life, and the quickest way to start is to learn something about the Ten Commandments. (Quick! Can you name all ten?)   One quarter of the Cate...

15. Evangelical and Catholic
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...   Third, because the list of canonical books is itself not found in Scripture -- as one can find the Ten Commandments or the names of Christ's Apostles -- any such list, whether Protest...

16. Coming to Our Senses: The Moral Sense of Scripture
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...dicated on Following the Rules and Morality.   So if the Bible is not all about law and morality, why the Ten Commandments and all the rules and regulations? The basic answer of the Traditio...

17. Survey Takes a Revealing New Look at Religious Voters
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...tion about religious expression on public property -- whether "local communities should be allowed to post the Ten Commandments and other religious symbols in public buildings if the majority agr...

18. Thick and Thin Religions
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...e of things, liberal religions have always had a tendency toward thinness. They believed in the second table of the Ten Commandments, but they were tolerant on alcohol, coffee, and tobacco, not to men...

19. Seven Deadly Social Sins?
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...inking that dominates contemporary journalism.   What better way to undermine the first two tablets of the Ten Commandments than by adding a third? That way, when the first set of teachings i...

20. Let's Be Strict with Strict Construction
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...uot; and "original intent" in interpreting the Constitution in his celebrated stand on the display of the Ten Commandments.   The judge made two important points: First, that two c...

21. Recycle or go to hell?
(MyBlog/MyBlog)

...s, the Vatican has issued seven new deadly sins for the modern age. And while the whole thing smacks of those "Ten Commandments for drivers" that were released last year -- namely, just a cu...

22. Was Moses high on Mount Sinai?
(MyBlog/MyBlog)

Behold -- the latest attempt to debunk biblical miracles: When Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, he may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant, according to a new study by a

23. Moses Who?
(Crisis Magazine/Book Review)

...er I slapped myself on the forehead frequently: Why didn't I think of this? Shattered Tablets: Why We Ignore the Ten Commandments at Our Peril David Klinghoffer, Doubleday, 256 pages, $24.95 &n...

24. Huckabee, the Kantian Candidate
(MyBlog/MyBlog)

...isely that, base morality on "thou shalts" and "thou shalt nots." It's as if Kant took the Ten Commandments given to Moses and tried to build an entire approach to morality ba...

25. Bread, Circuses, Nature, and Grace
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...nd virtual reality narrows by the day.   Leaving aside the question of whether churches that adhere to the Ten Commandments should offer such a game for the next generation, one is struck by ...

26. Why Monotheism Begot Modern Science
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...heism 3,000 years ago, which is to say Judaism, begot modern science because it posited universal laws, such as the Ten Commandments. (Thank you, Dr. Greenwalt!) By contrast, polytheism could never gi...

27. In a Country Church
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...lding makes a glorious backdrop for a memorable occasion, rather than a week-by-week reality of worship to God. The Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer, once familiar to all inhabitants of a villag...

28. Stalking the Ten-Pronged Divine Nod
(Crisis Magazine/Book Review)

...necessary truths into a useful whole, enabling the reader to easily call them to mind as a sort of reassuring "ten commandments of prayer."   A writer who clearly loves metaphors an...

29. Responsibility for Our Souls
(Crisis Magazine/Column)

...astising God for "threatening" us with punishment if we do not, say, obey the commandments. Yet, what the Ten Commandments and the two great commandments really do is not punish us, but prev...

30. Delusional Atheism
(Crisis Magazine/Book Review)

...ely at odds with the essential workings and brutality of evolution.   To illustrate, Dawkins adopts a New Ten Commandments, the second of which is, "In all things, strive to cause no ha...

31. Knowing the Enemy: Radical Islam and the Left
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...evolving Placard Syndrome. The people who are protesting the war in Iraq are the same people who want to remove the Ten Commandments from public spaces and who march for abortion and homosexual marria...

32. Knowing the Enemy: Dinesh D'Souza on Islam and the West
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...evolving Placard Syndrome. The people who are protesting the war in Iraq are the same people who want to remove the Ten Commandments from public spaces and who march for abortion and homosexual marria...

33. Have the Democrats Lost Their Faith?
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...olls conducted between 2001 and 2006 show that majorities, sometimes in landslide proportions, do not object to the Ten Commandments being displayed on public property, support making public school fa...

34. Finding the Balance Between Church and State
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...ve that religion should play a greater role in the life of the nation. They favor school prayer, the posting of the Ten Commandments, and do not object to groups that proselytize using government doll...

35. Will There Always Be An England?
(Crisis Magazine/Feature)

...ffers a sad picture. Surveys consistently show that few children in Britain know the names of our great heroes, the Ten Commandments, basic prayers such as the Our Father, the names of kings and queen...