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Litany of the Cross

Ross McCullough

Save us, O Holy Cross. Signpost of the times,Gnomon of the age,Axes of creation,Save us, O Holy Cross. Mast of a drifting planet,Plumb line of a crooked world,Knife of...

A Visit to Cumorah, Hill of the Mormons

Ross McCullough

They had evidently not read Stanley Hauerwas. There were perhaps no actual American flags in the visitor’s center—and anyway, this wasn’t a sanctuary—but even so, it’s hard to imagine...

God and the Gaps

Ross McCullough

Most often the story is told like this: There is some feature of the world that science is at a loss to explain. Christians rush to claim that this...

Westernizing Islam and the American Right

Ross McCullough

At the end of The Searchers, John Wayne stands framed by the darkened doorway of a cabin, and with the dry scrub and John Ford vastness behind him he...

The Beauty of the Ethical

Ross McCullough

How, then, shall he be a god, who has not as yet been made a man? —St. Irenaeus Malcolm Muggeridge entitled his reflection on Mother Teresa Something Beautiful for...