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A Midwestern Guide to Hell

Phil Christman’s Midwest Futures is short, cunningly constructed while seemingly casual, and rich with strange lore. Continue Reading »

12 Jun 2020 0

The Intellectual Vocation

by Joshua P. Hochschild

The point of intellectual life is to practice the judgment of discerning enduring insight. Continue Reading »

12 Jun 2020 0

Race and Redemption

by Gerald McDermott

Many church leaders and parishioners are adopting a race narrative that is empirically and theologically suspect. Continue Reading »

11 Jun 2020 0

A Procession Like No Other

by C. C. Pecknold

Our way of walking and kneeling in the world will always be religious—whether kneeling before idols or before the one true God. Continue Reading »

11 Jun 2020 0

“The Heavens Declare the Glory of God…”

by George Weigel

Astronomy Picture of the Day provides me with a preview of what I hope to see post-mortem: the glory of God declared in a display of astronomical wonders. Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2020 0

More Movies for Lockdown

by Mark Bauerlein

Let's add to the lists of movies that other periodicals have suggested people watch while stuck in their homes. Continue Reading »

9 Jun 2020 0

A Dark Cloud For Democracy

by Carl R. Trueman

Britain's news headlines are not dominated by events in its most recently ceded colony but by domestic protests about police violence in Minneapolis. Continue Reading »

8 Jun 2020 0

Assisted Suicide By Zoom

by Wesley J. Smith

The American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying recently published formal guidelines that permit doctors to assist suicides via the Internet. Continue Reading »

5 Jun 2020 0

Common Spirit, Common Good

by Peter J. Leithart

The Spirit weds hearts to one another through human actions and physical things, through shared words, shared bread, shared goods. Continue Reading »

4 Jun 2020 0

The Vatican’s Choice: Jimmy Lai or Xi Jinping?