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Let’s Not Make a Deal…at Least this Deal

George Weigel

Helping those who have broken away from the Catholic Church come back into full communion is a…

Homage to a Christian Humanist

Kenneth L. Woodward

When John T. Noonan, Jr. died last week at the age of 90, the American people lost…

Kink is Not Conscience

Samuel D. James

Why are some conservative-leaning writers defending Larry Garfield? Garfield was until recently a major developer at Drupal,…

Evolving Toward Africa

Peter J. Leithart

We Westerners know how modernization works. Light dawns in the north and west and spreads Reason and…

The Papal View from the Global South

Paul Seaton

This Economy Kills: Pope Francis on Capitalism and Social Justiceby andrea tornielli and giacomo galeazzi, trans. by…

The Importance of Jackie Robinson

George Weigel

In the history of the modern American civil rights movement, three iconic moments are typically cited. May…

We Should All Be Grateful for Gorsuch

Pete Spiliakos

Liberals who are dismayed by the confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch should cheer up. Things…

Five Lessons from Francis de Sales

William Doino Jr.

Given the growing challenges now facing Christians, a valuable source to turn to, for wisdom and strength,…

Rivers Declared to Be “Persons”

Wesley J. Smith

We live in truly surreal times. In an age when all human beings still do not have…

God’s Image, Man’s Crimes

James R. Rogers

Yesterday I discussed parts of Shane Claiborne’s Biblical arguments in Executing Grace in favor of abolishing the…

Death Penalties and the Divine

James R. Rogers

In Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us, Shane Claiborne argues…

Supreme Incoherence: Transgender Ideology and the End of Law

Jeff Shafer

In The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish recites an observation that John Milton included in his Areopagitica:…

The Benedict Option and the Way of Exchange

Alan Jacobs

Surely there has never been a richer and more deeply faithful model of Christian faith and practice…

Persuasive Disciples, Not Anarchic Disrupters

George Weigel

We are living through a dangerous moment in our national life, of an intensity and potential for…

How Many Foreigners Is an American Worth?

James R. Rogers

How do, or how should, Christian Americans answer the question of the moment: “Does the welfare of…