Biblical Crime Scenes

by Mark Bauerlein

Bruce Becker joins the podcast to discuss his new book True Crimes of the Bible. Continue Reading »

3 Jul 2023

The Armor of God

by Mark Bauerlein

Harold Ristau joins the podcast to discuss his new book, Spiritual Warfare: For the Care of Souls. Continue Reading »

13 Apr 2023

Salem and the Smoke of Satan

by George Weigel

Once one surrenders to hatred, ideological besottedness, jealousy, fear of the present, or despair about the future, the door is open for the Great Tempter to work his wicked ways through human weakness. Continue Reading »

6 Apr 2022

​Benedict Option

by R. R. Reno

There’s something very right about Rod Dreher’s call to action in The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation. He urges us to ask if we have “compromised too much with the world” and suggests ways to renew the integrity of our religious communities. Yet . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2017

The Devil and Hilary Mantel

by Patricia Snow

By now, everyone who reads contemporary fiction will have heard of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel’s acclaimed historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, the powerful advisor to Henry VIII who all but single-handedly disestablished the Catholic Church in England. Anathema to many . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Feb 2017

A Person You Flee At Parties

by David Bentley Hart

Forgive me for simply laying out a sequence of random thoughts (on a single theme) that occurred to me a few hours ago, as I was swimming around in my morning cistern of coffee; but it seems to be all I’m fit for just at the moment. I remembered this morning that, a few weeks ago, I happened to mention here that I thought Max Beerbohm’s “Enoch Soames,” from his collection Seven Men, to be maybe the most amusing short story in English. Continue Reading »

6 May 2011

A Primer on the Devil

by Walter Sundberg

As modern religionists, we face a curious predicament when we think of the Devil. On the one hand, we know that the forests and glens of Western culture have been cleared of the spirits and goblins that frightened our ancestors. When we are sick, we take a pill. When we are scared by some . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 1993