A Slave Revolt and Biblical Reasons

by Mark Bauerlein

Jeremy Schipper joins the podcast to discuss his recent book, Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt That Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial. Continue Reading »

11 Aug 2022

The Arch

by Raymond J. de Souza

Tutu was the great hope for a peaceful civil rights movement in the Apartheid era, an African Martin Luther King Jr. Continue Reading »

6 Jan 2022

Redemption Camp

by Armin Rosen

The revelation is said to have occurred on Willoughby Street in Ebute-Metta, a slum on the Lagos mainland. In 1952, Josiah Akindayomi, then an illiterate peasant, fell into a trance while praying with friends. When he emerged, he saw he had scrawled something on a blackboard, short lines of text he . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2018

The War Against Cardinal Sarah

by Marco Tosatti

The progressive party in the Vatican has launched yet another attack on Cardinal Robert Sarah.  Continue Reading »

23 Oct 2017

Liberal Racism Bares Its Fangs

by George Weigel

Given the politically-correct hysteria that typically surrounds any discussion of racism these days, I hesitate to use the term. But it’s hard to find another that fits certain reactions to Synod-2015 from the port side of the Barque of Peter. Exhibit A: Shortly after the Synod concluded, the Web . . . . Continue Reading »

30 Dec 2015

What Crisis in the Black Church?

by R. Laurence Moore

When we cut through the many good reasons that lead social scientists to study religion, we find ourselves in the end confronting questions about politics. Whether subtly or straightforwardly, with explicit or only veiled references to the Marxian axiom that religion is an opiate, the analytical . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1991