Several weeks back there was a bit of a dust-up in conservative Reformed Protestant circles over the following simple question: Does being a man or a woman have any ethical significance for the way we live together in civil society? Despite the success of feminism in radically reworking gender roles . . . . Continue Reading »
Jeremy Corbyn's victory in the Labour leadership contest and his immediate subsequent problems indicate the hollow and contradictory heart of the New Left. Continue Reading »
The Most Invisible Christians
Kelley Vlahos, American Conservative
Why Every Drag Queen Needs a Church
David Mills, Aleteia
Assisting the Dying
Hannah Malcolm, I Don't Have an Accent, You Have an Accent
On Not Being Boring
Robert Coons, The University Bookman
Liberty Students Survived Unsafe Space Created by Bernie Sanders and his Pro-Choice Views
Jesse Singal, NYMag
A poll taken of Long Island Catholics and reported in Newsday has a finding that has become customary in media discussions. While 88 percent of Catholic respondents regard religion as “very important” or “fairly important” in their lives, they aren’t that happy with Church doctrine. . . . . Continue Reading »
The Rise of Victimhood Culture
Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic
Art Across the Early Abrahamic Religions
Robert Gregg, OUPblog
There Is No Theory of Everything
Simon Critchley, New York Times
Jesus was a Refugee
K. Albert Little, Patheos
What Your Pastor's Jeans Say About Their Theology
Jesse Carey, Relevant
Why Conservatives Should Read Marx
Johnny Thakkar, The Point
Lambeth's Benedict Option
Sarah Puryear, Living Church
Is The Pope a Socialist?
William Droel, Patheos
How Achilles Can Help Us Understand Donald Trump
Charlotte Hays, Acculturated
Isn't it Ironic? Grace in the Wages of Sin
Kent Lasnoski, Dappled Things
Religion and the Social SciencesConversations with Robert Bellah and Christian Smithedited by R. R. Reno and Barbara McClayMore often than not it’s a class in the social science that challenges the faith of students, not a class in biology. Does critical understanding of our religious . . . . Continue Reading »
It is not only kings and princes who bear political office. As those created in God’s image, we too bear political authority. Continue Reading »
Looking for Calvin Coolidge
Gracy Olmstead, American Conservative
The End of History
Ernest B. Furgurson, American Scholar
Top Ten Books that Aren’t on Most “Great Books” Lists
David J. Davis, Reflection and Choice
Love, Faith, and Devotion: The Inspiration of Frances Chesterton
Nancy Carpentier Brown, Catholic Exchange
Why You Hate Google's New Logo
Sarah Larson, New Yorker
Over Labor Day weekend I sat down with two books by Samuel Moyn, The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History and Christian Human Rights. Both recount the emergence of human rights as a distinctive moral and political idea in the twentieth century.
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