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Who Were the Inklings?
The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings by philip zaleski and carol zaleski farrar, straus and…
In Sum: Religious Beliefs Aren’t Special
Did you know that “Religious liberty has an important place in American society, to be sure”? That’s…
Prosperity Gospel
In Signs and Wonders (65–66), Paul Alexander recounts a conversation with Nigerian theologian Lawrence Nwankwo. Nwankwo expressed the…
Touch of God
An extract from a remarkable sermon given by Rev. Dr. Rufus Okikiola Ositelu, Primate of the Church of the…
Eyeing Evolution
No “sequence of fossils by itself” can “demonstrate whether Darwinian mutation and natural selection can and did…
Vivent les differences!
In an article for the New Oxford Review, David Mills recounts the offense caused to a few…
First Links—5.27.15
Ireland’s 40-Percent Solution Robert Royal, The Catholic Thing Art and Money Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker Selfies…
Seven
Jeff Cook’s Seven matches Jesus’ beatitudes with the seven deadly sins. The beatitudes, he says, “are a picture…
Deceptive God?
Like many young earth creationists, Kurt Wise (Faith, Form, and Time) argues that the world is created…
Why Is There Something?
Why is there something rather than nothing? is usually posed as a philosophical question, the ontological question.…
Arousal Addiction
Philip Zimbardo (Man (Dis)connected) claims that young American men have become habituated to “regularly experience stimulus” by…
Men Such as These: A Memorial Day Reflection
Like most denizens of Washington, I pay too little attention to the sites other Americans make sacrifices…
Sons of Nones
On a recent train ride, I sat next to a young German woman living in the United…
Teaching the Family
Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive prepared by the archdiocese of philadelphia and the pontifical…
First Links—5.26.15
Planets, Priests, and a Persistent Myth Stephen Barr and Dermott Mullan, Wall Street Journal Dante Turns Seven…
