It was the Christmas of 2013, and my 10-year-old twin sons were having a crisis of faith.Their elder brother had already settled into a comfortable skepticism about flying reindeer, toy-making elves, and Santa Claus. To their younger sister, the existence of such things was a matter of uncomplicated . . . . Continue Reading »
It was about animosity to Muslims, not theology. That’s what Miroslav Volf claimed in a Washington Post editorial condemning Wheaton College administrators, who are currently investigating a professor who said that Christians and Muslims worship the same God. Ironically, in making this accusation, . . . . Continue Reading »
The Little Way of Terry Pratchett
Leah Libresco, Aleteia
Michael Wyschogrod, Dean of Orthodox Jewish Theologians, Dies at 87
David P. Goldman, Tablet
Crisis of Character
Brendan O’Neill, spiked
A Medieval Antidote to ISIS
Mustafa Akyol, New York Times
A Preacher Without a Congregation
Peter Blair, The American Interest
Poetry of Propaganda: Act One, Guerilla Marketing
Ira Glass, This American Life
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A Design of Eternal Salvation
James V. Schall, S. J., The Catholic Thing
Holiday Despair and the Meaning of Christmas
Jennifer Fitz, Patheos
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Nicholas Fedyk, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
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The Wound of Beauty
Gregory Wolfe, Image
Modernity, Religion, and Morality
George Weigel, Yoram Hazony, Tikvah
Elijah and the Widow: An Advent Meditation
Richard Beck, Experimental Theology
San Francisco Values
Michael Anton, Claremont Review of Books
Muslim Parents on How They Talk to Their Children About Hatred and Extremism
Hanna Ingber, New York Times
Towards Plural Marriage: Understanding and Countering the Liberal Wringer
Scott Yenor, Public Discourse
Economic Participation
Richard Aleman, Distributist Review
Krampus Resurgent
Jonathan McDonald, Dappled Things
Application Information: Religious Freedom Project
Nicholas Fedyk, Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs
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