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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...

Who hangs on the center tree at the Place of the Skull? That’s the question of Good Friday, the conundrum of the cross. It’s also the scandal of Jesus’s...

In Human Action: A Treatise on Economics, Ludwig von Mises explains how enlightened self-interest, rather than love, is the lubricant of social collaboration:  Social cooperation has nothing to do...

To most Americans, “capitalism” means “free economy,” a market system in which individuals and freely formed groups have the liberty to innovate, collaborate, produce, distribute, buy, and sell, all...

At the beginning of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, withdraws from the city for undisclosed reasons and leaves his full “terror” in the hands of...

The Epistle to the Hebrews proclaims the superiority of the new to the old, the second to the first. Israel had its luxuriant wilderness sanctuary, its venerable Aaronic priesthood,...

In real life, I’m a gentle soul—easygoing, tolerant, deferential, emotionally steady with a tilt toward whimsical joviality. There are exceptions. Behind the wheel of a car, I turn into...

Since the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, the story goes, we’ve lived more and more in a machine world of cogs, pistons, and flywheels, devoid of meaning and mystery....

Élisabeth-Paule Labat (1897–1975) was an accomplished pianist and composer when she entered the abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan in her early twenties. She devoted her later years to writing...