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Ryan Burge is unignorable. A political scientist known for his “graphs about religion,” Burge is required reading for anyone who writes about Christianity in America today...

The debates of the past year or two surrounding the Second World War have exposed fault lines in American political culture. The war became a surprising issue in the...

Some years ago, I was a resident at Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center in Johnstown, a small postindustrial town in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. In a free moment,...

A few years ago, I had some routine surgery. Something went wrong in recovery. The nurses on the floor couldn’t fix it. They couldn’t find the specialist. It was Sunday....

That by which we riseis that by which we fall. This comes as no surprise at all.But paradox the rule,that by which we fallis also that by which we rise.This...

When Homer was a little boy,He never had a single toy.All his play was in his mind;In that sense only he was blind. The bard is not a slave...

Two twin-like English sisters ran the place. When we checked in, one asked, “Is it the case . . .?” The other finished, “It’s your honeymoon?”    It was. They handed...

Rise, you fur-framed ghost.Rise, you antler-crowned king.Let sinew and bone stitch together again.Let ears and tail be joined once more by skin.Leap from the roadside where you have slept.Leap...

And now the storm has passed but night has not yet come.The sky is yellow, vast and clean. The music fromthe broad green staves is spilling in measure after...

for my friend Greg.Cancer is trying to kill him,and so I begfor chemo to save him,a respite from his pain.I pray The Sorrowful Mysteriesand realize again that none of...

Imagine a middle-aged white man in good clothes waiting for a morning train at a station of the Long Island Railroad. He appears at ease, even a little self-satisfied....

In the autumn of 1944, Ludwig Wittgenstein noticed a young doctoral student in attendance at his lectures at the University of Cambridge. She was “a woman, Mrs so and so who calls herself Miss Anscombe...

In the musical Wicked, the familiar story of The Wizard of Oz is retold from the perspective of its supposed villain. When Elphaba, the green-skinned, talented young woman who will later be remembered...

Though it was overshadowed by the reversal of Roe v. Wade the Friday before, the Supreme Court’s decision on June 27, 2022 in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District was...

England’s best-groomed town is Darlington, Yorkshire. Data from Britain’s Office of National Statistics show that in 2024, Darlington (pop. 110,562) had 125 barber shops and beauty salons...