Death

Courage During the Plague

During a pandemic, we are to keep our eye on the soul, for pandemics can harm the soul even more than the body. Continue Reading »

7 Feb 2022

Mine Eyes Have Seen Thy Salvation

by Victor Lee Austin

Jesus’s entrance into this world would be of no importance had he not been offered up as a sacrifice for the millennially-problematic human being. Continue Reading »

2 Feb 2022

Heaven,” Jonathan Edwards says in the fifteenth and last of his Charity Sermons, “is a World of Love.” In saying this, however, he did not seem to have in mind what many of us might -immediately hope for or suppose. To be sure, in one of his Miscellanies, asking himself “whether the . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2022

A Proper Christian Burial

by Mark Bauerlein

Tim Perry joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Funerals: For the Care of Souls. Continue Reading »

6 Dec 2021

Sorrow and Hope on All Souls Day

by Gerald E. Murray

Praying for all the dead on November 2 is a communal act of supernatural charity by the Church Militant for the Church Suffering, praying in union with the Church Triumphant for all those being made ready for heaven. Continue Reading »

2 Nov 2021

Norm Macdonald’s Spiritual Journey

by Nic Rowan

Macdonald may have only been dabbling in Christianity, but his criticisms of the post-Christian world were often incisive. Continue Reading »

17 Sep 2021

Of Dying and Rising

by Mark Bauerlein

Jeffrey Pulse joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Figuring Resurrection: Joseph as a Death and Resurrection Figure in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism. Continue Reading »

5 Jul 2021

Foucault’s Principalities & Powers

by Angela Franks

In the late 1960s, a sociologist described French theorist Michel Foucault (1926–1984) as “a sort of frail, gnarled samurai who was dry and hieratic, who had the eyebrows of an albino and a somewhat sulfurous charm, and whose avid and affable curiosity intrigued everyone.” Claude Mauriac, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2021