Cities have figured prominently in the Christian imagination: City of God, City of Jerusalem, the Heavenly City. The single English word “city” has varied referents that easily blur our vision. But the image has lodged itself firmly into our religious politics. The “secular city” (a phrase . . . . Continue Reading »
On October 7, more Jews were killed than on any single day since the Holocaust, many in brutal and sadistic ways. Rapes committed, hostages taken, concertgoers gunned down, corpses desecrated, small children murdered: The attack by Hamas militants on civilians unveiled the terrible darkness of the . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s Sarah’s old-bone incredulitywrecked by the coos of borne-out prophecy. It’s Jacob learning that his son’s not dead,the brothers scrubbed of blood they long thought shed. It’s Miriam’s, Deborah’s, Hannah’s canticles,delivered from the haughty’s manacles. It’s David writhing, . . . . Continue Reading »
Kenny Xu joins the podcast to discuss his new book School of Woke: How Critical Race Theory Infiltrated American Schools and Why We Must Reclaim Them. Continue Reading »
Ayaan Hirsi Ali is concerned with how the West is dismantling its traditional cultural norms and with what it intends to replace them. Continue Reading »
When doctors imagine themselves deities who de facto know “what’s best” in difficult neo-natal cases, then the ethics of the ancient Hippocratic Oath seem to crumble. Continue Reading »
Katy Carl's stories, imbued with Catholicism, lodge in the mind uncomfortably and call for another reading. Continue Reading »
John Moran joins the podcast to discuss a recently rejected Australian referendum that proposed special representation for indigenous people in government. Continue Reading »
God willing, Jordan Castro will help kill off autofiction as a literary form. Continue Reading »
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