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Finding Hope at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary
My visit to St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, was a long time coming. For…
Indifference Is Irresponsible
I can understand why many Americans seem dispirited about world affairs. Things are indeed a mess. What…
Calling All Aspiring Classical Teachers
In 1989, Teach for America (TFA) started with a winning idea: recruit elite college seniors to teach…
German “Synodality” and the World Church
In a recent interview with The Pillar, Dr. Frank Ronge, a veteran German Catholic bureaucrat who coordinates…
Machine
The American modernist poet E. E. Cummings ended up as a somewhat lonely, politically conservative Unitarian. It…
Clint Eastwood’s Law
In the course of his seven-decade career, Clint Eastwood has come to be identified with a single…
At the Graveside
Based on Philip Melanchthon’s epitaph for his son, Georg
Fellow Travelers
Christianity is cropping up in unexpected places. This summer, Jordan Peterson chatted with Elon Musk. In his…
Common Sense Tragedy
Machen’s Hope: The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princetonby richard e. burnetteerdmans, 638 pages, $45.99…
LETTERS FROM THE SYNOD – 2024: #1
Letters from the Synod began in 2015 at the request of Cardinal George Pell, then the Prefect…
Can Nations Be Baptized?
Can nations be baptized? Jesus thought so. His last words in Matthew’s Gospel are, “Go therefore and…
The Orwellian Evolution of Banned Books Week
This week is “Banned Books Week,” a fact being advertised at libraries and booksellers across the country.…
Elizabeth Inchbald, Inventor of the Catholic Novel
While the “Catholic novel” is a recognized subgenre—associated above all, in the twentieth century, with Evelyn Waugh…
Women and the Catholic Novel
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Haley Stewart joins in…
Rock Lessons
Late in October 2018, I wrote a First Things column called “A Sense of Time,” most of…
