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Samson’s Spirituality

Samson is the most Spiritual man in the Old Testament, the most Pentecostal of Israel’s heroes. Continue Reading »

2 Jun 2017 0

Pope Francis’s thought involves a series of dichotomies: North-South, imperial-populist, ideological-historical, abstract-concrete, and so on. Rourke shows in detail the intellectual formation that gave rise to this eccentric version of the social magisterium. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017 0

Watching George Pell

by Philippa Martyr

In a world where too many bishops have failed us in ways too terrible to mention, George Pell has yet to do so. Continue Reading »

1 Jun 2017 0

Interreligious Dialogue with Edge and Purpose

by George Weigel

What Benedict outlined in 2006 remains true eleven years later: In order to live in peace with “the rest,” Islam must find within its own religious and intellectual resources a way to affirm religious tolerance. Continue Reading »

31 May 2017 0

The Limits of Planned Parenthood’s Storytelling

by Leah Libresco Sargeant

Joss Whedon’s “Unlocked” tells a more complicated story about sex and abortion than he and Planned Parenthood must have intended. Continue Reading »

31 May 2017 0

A Restless Mind, In Search of Truth

by Paul Seaton

Peter Augustine Lawler died on May 23 at the relatively young age of 65, but he died in the hope of the Risen One and lives on in the lives he touched. Continue Reading »

30 May 2017 0

What I Saw At The Debate Between Dissent and American Affairs

by Matthew Schmitz

Dispatches from the debate: Any left that is unable to see the way we are enslaved by lust will end up the unwitting handmaiden of those who exploit. Continue Reading »

30 May 2017 0

Keep Christianity Weird

by Joshua Kinlaw

Christianity’s sheer familiarity has desensitized us to its radicalness. Larry Hurtado aims to show how the “odd” became “commonplace,” by surveying the first three centuries of the Jesus movement. Continue Reading »

30 May 2017 0