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John Witherspoon’s American Revolution:  Enlightenment and Religion from the Creation of Britain to the Founding of the United States by gideon mailer university of north carolina, 440 pages, $45 Were John Witherspoon living today, he would be a regular contributor to First . . . . Continue Reading »

SACRAMENTS, NOT SWEETS James Zacchaeus’s story (“Thanks for Everything, Pope Francis,” June/July) is a testimony to what can result when a Catholic couple treats Christ’s commandments on marriage as divine guidance requiring obedience for their own good rather than an unachievable ideal . . . . Continue Reading »

Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church, State, and Societyedited by john c. raoangelico, 290 pages, $19.95 . . . . Continue Reading »

R. R. Reno is sympathetic to nationalism because he sees it as a reaction against disenchantment (“Return of the Strong Gods,” May). While I agree that “the banishment of love from our politics is creating the populism that presently troubles us,” it doesn’t strike me that this populism . . . . Continue Reading »

Never Retreat, Opioids, Spirit and Truth, Sham . . . . Continue Reading »

Forgiveness, Right to Work, Shepherds and Wolves, City . . . . Continue Reading »

Shame the Devil, Drunk on Heresy, Reading Tradition, . . . . Continue Reading »

Sing to the Lord, Bible Belt Survivors, Paths of Virtue, and Evil . . . . Continue Reading »

Protesting, Trans Crash, Gnoschtick, . . . . Continue Reading »

Fascist Fallacy, Writer and Riots, Numbered Days, . . . . Continue Reading »