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Structure in 1 Chronicles 8
The first portion of 1 Chronicles 8 is structured roughly by two sets of five lists of…
Bridge to Nowhere
Andrew Bacevich argues that we are building a “multi-trillion dollar bridge to nowhere” in the Middle East.…
A Crucial Bulwark
I’m happy to report that we’ve raised nearly $200,000 so far. Our spring campaign goal was very…
Theater of the Word
Last week I had the honor and pleasure of seeing my production of The Jeweler’s Shop by…
Redeeming Benjamin
Paul the apostle was a Hebrew of the Hebrews from the tribe of Benjamin. That tribal association…
Islamicization of Europe, or Christianization of Islam?
Rod Dreher summarized several reports that many Muslim refugees have converted to Christianity when they arrived in…
Blessings of Business
Darren Grem’s forthcoming The Blessings of Business is a study of the money men behind mid-20th century…
The Surprising Stability of Americans’ Moral Attitudes
Social conservatives had a tough year in 2015. In June, the Supreme Court’s decision in Obergefell v.…
Catholic v. Universal
Writing on Catholic education in a 1990 America essay, Walter Ong pushed the discussion of Catholic identity…
Philosophical Bible
Why isn’t the Hebrew Bible taken seriously as a text of philosophy, ethics, or political thought? That…
What We’ve Been Reading—6.10.16
Julia Yost I’m going to break protocol and tell you about what I’ve been watching. But what…
Satan Among Skeptics
Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita has an epigraph from Goethe’s Faust, and the novel is full…
Confessions to Father Newman
I am that rare soul who can remember his First Confession, at age eight, very nearly word-for-word—I…
Axis America
Last fall I binge-watched all of the first season of Amazon’s television series The Man in the…
Outsider Ethics
While Athenian philosophy was in many respects quite distant from the political cosmologies that characterized the great…
