Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Evangelicals and Animals
Ribs are getting harder to eat. I was gnawing on some nice tender bones in Memphis recently,…
A Family of Saints
If there was one serene moment amidst all the ecclesiastical discord at the recent Synod in Rome,…
Enlightenment Thought and Paying for Lightbulbs
Someone wrote a letter recently to the editor of a denominational magazine, proposing that since the staff…
Sex and Tradition
In a few carefully argued pages in his recently translated The Crisis of Modernity, the Italian Catholic philosopher…
School Shootings and the Book of Job
Last Thursday morning, I was teaching a freshman honors seminar in Newberg, Oregon. We were discussing Genesis…
Issues Beneath Issues at Synod 2015
Written from Rome: Since Pope Francis announced that two Synods would examine the contemporary crisis of marriage…
The Moral Universe of Hannibal
A woman lovingly plucks a dead pheasant. A man places a human arm on a cutting board…
The Mystery of Eternal Love
One of the most common charges leveled against Christians in the early church was that they were…
Synod on the Family
The following is a preview segment of R. R. Reno’s “The Public Square” from our upcoming November…
Instrumentum Laboris
The following is a preview segment of R. R. Reno’s “The Public Square” from our upcoming November…
Solving the Poor
Our Kids:The American Dream in Crisisby robert d. putnamsimon & schuster, 400 pages, $28 In a recent…
Synod 2015 Hopes
The XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the Family begins with Mass in…
Sporting Transcendence
Recently I got quite caught up in a football game on television. It was a close match…
Close Reading in the Classroom
Teaching Particulars, Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12 by Helaine L. Smith paul dry, 248 pages, $18.95 Too…
We Need to Talk About Adoption
In “Adoption, Abortion and a Message of Hope,” J.D. Flynn makes an important point: the choice to…
