The Honor Deficit

by James Hankins

The decline of meritocratic standards in American universities, and the rise of identity-based admissions, is leading to an honor deficit that might well spell the end of elite education. Continue Reading »

4 Mar 2022 0

When Evil Is Called Good

by Carl R. Trueman

There is a clear push to grant LGBTQ+ ideology a favored legal and cultural status that enforces it without compromise, with any dissent labelled as morally evil. Continue Reading »

3 Mar 2022 0

Lent, Gianlorenzo Bernini, and the Liberating Lightness of Truth

by George Weigel

As the Church enters Lent 2022, it is well to reflect on and pray over the Catholic understanding that doctrine is light, powerful, and liberating, which some parts of the world Church seem to have forgotten. Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2022 0

Silent Savior

by Peter J. Leithart

In the weakness of the fast, we confess the Passion of God is stronger than all human action. In Lenten silence, we affirm the confidence of the silent Savior, assured that God will finish all his words. Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2022 0

Marked by Death

by Brad East

We are a people marked by death—not death as a power that holds sway over us, but rather the liberating death of Christ on the cross. Continue Reading »

2 Mar 2022 0

Alice von Hildebrand, Woman of Valor

by Mark Gottlieb

Let us not lose the opportunity to thank our maker for giving us the gift of Alice von Hildebrand, who arduously defended the truth through her formidable faculties of head and heart. Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022 0

Sting in the Shadow of the Cross

by John Duggan

As his latest album demonstrates, a subset of Sting’s songs reverberates with the legacy of an urban English Catholic childhood of the 1950s and ’60s. Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2022 0

The Future of United Methodism

by Dale M. Coulter

With the United Methodist Church dividing over same-sex marriage, Methodists must search to ground their tradition in a return to Wesleyan catholicity. Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2022 0

The Man Who Painted the Reformation

by Jane Coombs

As humanists sought the truth by mastering ancient languages, and reformers by printing the Gospels in vernacular ones, Holbein pursued the truth by recording his subjects—both Protestants and Catholics—in honest, startling detail. Continue Reading »

28 Feb 2022 0

The Taste for Prayer

by Kurt Hofer

Developing a taste for prayer is probably the first and foremost battle of our age, as Cardinal Sarah teaches. Continue Reading »

25 Feb 2022 0