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After Great Lent
Last Sunday Orthodox Christians around the world finally celebrated Pascha and proclaimed Christ risen from the dead.…
Defying Anti-Intellectualism: An Essay/Video Contest for Your Students
Last year, Adam Bellow and I edited a volume of essays entitled The State of the American…
Briefly Noted
Saint Paul Lives Here (In Minnesota)by zach czaiawipf and stock, 66 pages, $7.50 A fter years of…
Singers and Priests
The genealogy of Levi in 1 Chronicles 6 begins and ends with the genealogy of Aaron (6:1-15;…
No Deal
David Goldman (Spengler) writes that “Republican voters bought Trump’s message that the wicked Chinese and the feckless…
The Persistence of Modernism
In a contribution to a forthcoming collection of essays on Time, David James explores the usefulness of…
First Links — 5.6.16
Ascension Day Couldn’t Be More TimelyPeter M. Burfeind, Federalist The Spark of Life Meets IVF (and Uncle…
Hail Thee, Festival Day!
When I was young, my family’s favorite hymn was sung on three days of the Church year.…
Laboratory Limits that are not Limits
Laboratory researchers have been able to extend the time they can keep a human embryo alive in…
Sacramental Art
Nearly everything about modern art “can be empirically explained by examining style, iconography and patronage,” writes Richard…
What Made Trump
Andrew Sullivan’s Trumpacalyptic essay in New York doesn’t persuade. The Constitutional system that Sullivan describes so well…
What Is A Family?
In her Sexual Authenticity, Melinda Selmys says that the distinction between “traditional” and “alternative” families is often…
“To Trump, or Not to Trump”
To Trump, or not to Trump, that is the question.Whether ’tis nobler in the land to sufferThe…
New Paper on Human Dignity and Religious Freedom
For those who are interested, a draft version of my new article, “Of Human Dignities,” is now…
The Rise of the Anti-Culture
Is the culture war over? Or, to use less martial language, is Christian cultural engagement at an…
