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Symbolizing Reality

Peter J. Leithart

At the beginning of his Silence and Praise, Ryan Hansen summarizes several of the recent approaches to understanding…

The Catholic Writer in America

Mark Bauerlein

Dana Gioia may be best known to our audience for his essay in First Things last year entitled…

Indiana, Religious Freedom, and the Hysteria

R. R. Reno

Yesterday I put forward my analysis of the extraordinary propaganda blitz and its implications. In doing so, I said…

A Protestant’s Passion for the Virtues of Thomas

Carl R. Trueman

I discovered Aquinas quite by accident some twenty years ago. Hired to teach Medieval and Reformation theology…

First Links—4.1.15

The Editors

Indiana: The Holy War of the Left Rod Dreher, The American Conservative James Rebanks: ‘Shepherding is Beautiful…

When Opposing Laws Like Indiana’s Costs Lives

R. R. Reno

None of the dire outcomes predicted by those campaigning against the Indiana RFRA have materialized in jurisdictions…

Automatic Writing

Peter J. Leithart

Explaining the power of liturgical habit, Paul Griffiths (Decreation) offers writing as an example of the self-forgetful,…

Unity First?

Peter J. Leithart

In his Gift and the Unity of Being, Antonio Lopez claims that “Christ’s kenotic gift of self restores…

Nothing Sacred

Peter J. Leithart

Douglas Rushkoff’s Nothing Sacred is rather all over the place (as one might say if one had a…

Kept from Women

Peter J. Leithart

The emphasis on chastity, virginity, and lack of defilement from women does not have to do with…

Five Reasons Why Indiana Is the Perfect Place for the Left to Boycott

Phillip Bethancourt

In the wake of Indiana passing a Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), nationwide momentum has swelled for…

First Links—3.30.15

The Editors

Celebrating the Life and Work of Gerard Manley Hopkins Joseph J. Feeney, America Lenten Conference Audio: St.…

Lector Ludens

Peter J. Leithart

One of the central virtues of Lector Ludens, Michael Scham’s study of games and play in Cervantes, is Scham’s…

Against Sacraments

Peter J. Leithart

Trevor Hart (Between the Image and the Word, 62-74) describes the de-sacramentalizing shift in Barth’s theology. He…

Music in Liturgy and Life

Peter J. Leithart

Music has profound effects on our moods and minds. If we believe the ancient wisdom, this is…