See now that I myself am he! There is no god besides me. I put to death and I bring to life, I have wounded and I will ...
On September 20, the Daily Mail ran a story with the provocative headline, “Our 83-year-old Christian grandmother was euthanised against her will under Canada’s assisted dying system—she died ...
In a life of reading, there are special times of wonder and delight. Books come into your hands that address your central concerns and discuss matters you’ve long pondered. But they do so in fresh and ...
Texas Public School Students Will Be Required to Read the Bible,” warned a headline in the New York Times in June. The Texas State Board of Education had just approved a required reading list for K–12 ...
Pundits tell us that we are moving beyond the culture wars. Left and right are merging in their common judgment that liberalism has reached a dead end. Something new is emerging. Maybe. My sense is ...
Has Elon Musk read the Odyssey? Despite the trillionaire’s endless carping about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of the Homeric poem, I have yet to see anyone ask this simple question. Musk has ...
More than two centuries ago, Søren Kierkegaard attacked the established church of his native Denmark. He denounced it for encouraging outward “Christian” behavior rather than authentic belief. People ...
During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Even though the course had no track record (and therefore no student evaluations), ...
I recently lectured in Rome on the topic of the Antichrist. The Antichrist interests me for several reasons, mostly because nobody else is talking about it—which, for most of Christian history, would ...
The following essay is adapted from Brad Wilcox’s just-released book Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization. A Sociologist of Religion on ...
Jews familiar with Franz Rosenzweig (1886–1929) probably know him first as a hero, only then as a German-Jewish philosopher. His life and death are the stuff of legend. Born to an assimilated Jewish ...
Frequent confession was once normal—monthly, biweekly, or even weekly. But it became rarer among Catholics formed from the 1970s through the 1990s. Today, many Catholics go to confession only after ...