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Charles Murrayโ€™s Return to Faith

Casey Chalk

Taking Religion Seriouslyby charles murrayencounter, 200 pages, $29.99 The academy is one of the most intellectually stultifying places in America, particularly those disciplines called the โ€œsoft sciences.โ€ Despite presenting...

Reparations Should Not Trump Communion

Casey Chalk

Throughout Christian history, periods of social crisis have typically provoked an intensification of the faithfulโ€™s belief and practice: more prayer, more Bible reading, more services, more public declarations of...

Captain Bob

Casey Chalk

On the day my family moved into our home in Northern Virginia, we found a bottle of champagne with a card from the sellers affixed. They congratulated us on...

Texting With AI Jesus

Casey Chalk

Want to talk to the Son of God? Thereโ€™s an app for that. Text With Jesus, a Los Angelesโ€“based product that launched in July, replicates an instant messaging platform...

A Cruciform Vision

Casey Chalk

A Grain of Wheat: Collected Sermons of Father Leonard R. Kleinedited by christa ressmeyer kleinrncluny, 372 pages, $29.95 Preaching Christ means to feed the soul, make it righteous, set...

Class Acts

Casey Chalk

Another summer, another moving season in Northern Virginia, a region filled with peripatetic military and federal families. Some folks, like us, move by choiceโ€”our three-bedroom townhome with no yard...