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No man is an island,” John Donne declares in his Devotions upon Emergent Occasions. The Ballad of Wallis Island, a new film directed by James Griffiths, gives us not...

“Hope,” wrote the German-American polymath Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, “is the deity of youth.” Wholly dependent on adults, children have little scope for action and “can only hope for the best.”...

Jan Zwicky is a Renaissance woman—a philosopher who has taught at Princeton and the University of Victoria, an award-winning poet who teaches creative writing at various institutions, a violinist...

Charlie Kirk’s assassination has fired up a long-standing evangelical wrangle about “third-wayism.” Keen to avoid being boxed in by either the right or the left, third-wayists say Christians must...

For two weeks, two icons of horrific violence have dominated the news: the August 22 murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska, who was peacefully checking her phone on a...

A sense of an ending is in the air, but there’s little consensus about what’s ending or why. Progressives worry about the end of democracy, while MAGA conservatives celebrate the sudden implosion...

Politics is important, but it’s not the first thing. What we call politics isn’t even the first political thing. The churches’ prayers, preaching, song, communion, charity...

Two books on plant evolution, both alternately nutty and brilliant, were recently published. The subtitle of Robert N. Spengler III’s Nature’s Greatest Success contains the punch line: “How plants...

German sociologist Hartmut Rosa characterizes modernity as the product of a triple acceleration. Technology speeds up movement and communication, technological change itself keeps accelerating, and, as a result, social...

To the two disciples on the road to Emmaus, the risen Jesus explains “things concerning himself in all the Scriptures,” beginning with “Moses and with all the prophets” (Luke 24:27). He repeats...

Chesterton was half-right: America is a “nation with the soul of a church.” The other half of the truth is that many of our churches lack basic features of...

By the time we get to Judges 6, we’re in a groove. We know the beat of the book: Israel does evil, Yahweh hands them over to an oppressor,...

The year 2025 marks the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, convened by Emperor Constantine I to resolve the Arian controversy. The Creed hammered out in the fourth...

In my little corner of the Christian world, everyone’s talking about politics, especially the permutations and implications of Christian nationalism. All is political theology and punditry. My little corner...

Peter Harrison is one of today’s finest intellectual historians. He writes clearly, explains complex ideas lucidly without sacrificing accuracy or complexity, and supports his arguments with massive learning, from...