A Plea for Pakistan’s Christians
by Charles J. ChaputChristians and other members of minority religions in Pakistan face chronic hostility, harassment, and persecution. Continue Reading »
China’s Second Cultural Revolution
by Thomas F. FarrMao’s successors concede that trying to kill religion is not realistic, but that religion poses a mortal threat to communist rule and must be controlled. Continue Reading »
Title IX Trouble for Fuller Seminary
by Carl R. TruemanThe elasticity of Title IX in our current climate renders it the left’s equivalent of Batman’s all-purpose utility belt. Continue Reading »
Is China a Model of the Common Good?
by Matthew SchmitzThe common good is not a euphemism for tyranny, and oppression is not a synonym for order. Continue Reading »
Canada Divided Against Itself
by David T. KoyzisQuébec has not abandoned religious faith; it has simply redirected that faith toward a state-centered nationalism. Continue Reading »
Forged in Fire
by Carlos EireAmong secularists, Christianity is associated with intolerance, largely because its attitudes toward sex do not square with the progressive status quo. But Christianity’s reputation for intolerance can be traced back to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, and to public intellectuals such . . . . Continue Reading »
A New Cardinal Honors an Entire Nation
by George WeigelSigitas Tamkevicius’s enrollment in the College of Cardinals was a papal tribute to a brave man who exemplifies the best the Society of Jesus offers the Church and the world. Continue Reading »
Beto's Woke Integralism
by Ed CondonMagisterial progressivism requires an integralist state to entrench its teachings, and Beto’s bid for the power to compel obedience and destroy through the tax system is the obvious stick to reach for. Continue Reading »
The Christian Roots of Religious Liberty
by Mark BauerleinOn this episode, Robert Wilken discusses his new book Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom. Continue Reading »
Cultural Nihilism
by R. R. RenoThe decline in life expectancy in the United States is a symptom of a failing culture. It is driven by deaths of despair: Suicide rates are up, as are drug overdoses and alcohol-related diseases. Those are hard, cruel facts. There are other signs of failure, more auspicious ones. We read about young . . . . Continue Reading »
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