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Advent from a Prison Cell
The recent (and sadly flawed) movie Bonhoeffer reminds us that Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German pastor and Lutheran…
Make Villains Wicked Again
In recent years, Hollywood has produced movies that cast once irredeemable villains, such as Maleficent, Cruella de…
While We’re At It
♦ Paul Kingsnorth opens his Erasmus Lecture with a visit to the hilltop where the flamboyant Lieutenant Colonel…
Christianity and Italian Politics
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Rosario Forlenza and Bjørn…
Books for Christmas—2024
A friend told me recently that bookstores were making something of a comeback. I hope that’s true,…
Wifejak, Icon of the Normal
Social-media sites are dark places. Bigotry in every direction, footage of random ultra-violence, porn and OnlyFans content—all…
G. K. Chesterton on Life Stories
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Brady Stiller joins in to…
Bonhoeffer Is Not Your Cipher
In 1906, the German New Testament studies guild suffered a rude shock. The cause was Albert Schweitzer’s…
The Life of a Young Saint
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Christine M. Wohar joins in…
Finding Order in the Pieces
In October of 2023, I wrote a column here about how I came to be doing jigsaw…
The Things That Are Above
The 2024 U.S. election season proved a time of revelation for the Church. A remarkable and worrying…
The Undoing of Justin Trudeau
For a brief moment, the re-election of Donald Trump must have given the unpopular Canadian prime minister,…
Poetry in the Age of Disenchantment
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Charles Taylor joins in to…
Low Church Atheism
The heyday of “New Atheism” around 2009 or 2010 featured a strain of millennial humor that has…
Liberalism and Civic Virtue
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. F. H. Buckley joins in…
