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Trying Abraham
by Cole S. AronsonAbraham is closest to God when, in Kierkegaard’s phrase, he goes “no farther than faith”—when he simply, merely, obeys the command. Continue Reading »
No Unity Without the Cross
by Salvatore J. CordileoneOur Lady of Guadalupe unites the Old World and the New, and so a new Christian people is formed from the two—a mestizo people. Continue Reading »
The Reformed Liturgy, 50 Years Later
by George WeigelFifty years ago, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with the universal implementation of the revised Roman Rite of the Mass. The liturgy wars have not abated since. 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 »
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 »
Gay Rights and the Civil Rights Act
by R. R. RenoIt would be dangerous to give the powerful gay lobby the weapons of anti-discrimination law. Continue Reading »
The Poets' Favorite Season
by Dan HitchensIf autumn is the poets’ favorite season, it is because autumn catches us in between, regretting and hoping, seeing the seed fall and imagining its growth. Continue Reading »
Martin Scorsese's Damned Men Walking
by John WatersMartin Scorsese’s The Irishman is a meditation on the notion of culpability carried without the possibility of absolution.
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Hope As a Natural Virtue
by Peter J. LeithartWe embark on the road of sanity only when we walk in hope; hope is the source of natural virtue. Continue Reading »
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