Augustine

St. Ambrose’s Advent Hymn

Here is a new English verse translation of one of St. Ambrose's most popular compositions, which takes the Incarnation of the Son of God as its theme. Continue Reading »

13 Dec 2022

How to Stay Orthodox

by Joel Looper

Here we have the question that keeps Trevin Wax and so many evangelical ministers up at night. Why are so few of our people interested in the Bible? Continue Reading »

24 Nov 2022

Paul Miller Contra Augustine

by Daniel Strand

Whatever my disagreements with Miller’s book, and they are many, this is the direction debate over Christian nationalism should take. Continue Reading »

19 Oct 2022

It is as if heaven itself turns down to the earth, while simultaneously, the earth turns up to the sky. The kiss of righteousness and peace is the Advent kiss of the hypostatic union of God and man. Continue Reading »

9 Dec 2021

Hope and Her Daughters

by Francis X. Maier

The virtue of hope has two beautiful daughters, anger and courage: anger with the way things are, and courage to change them for the better. These powerful words (you can find them all over the internet) are attributed to St. Augustine. Unfortunately, they may not be his. A friend of mine who is an . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2021

Ever Ancient, Ever New

by Bryan Kerns

The challenges rending the Church today are strikingly similar to those of centuries ago. Continue Reading »

22 Feb 2021

Letters

by Various

After reading Douglas Farrow’s “The Secret of the Saeculum” (May), I found myself unsure of how to understand it. Take, for instance, the following striking passage: Our age is a very definite age, a very well-defined age, precisely because it is bracketed by the first and second comings of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2020

The Secret of the Saeculum

by Douglas Farrow

In the tenth book of The City of God, Augustine reminds his readers that he is not arguing either with those who imagine there is no God or with those who suppose that whatever God there may be is improvident and does not care about this world or the people in it. It is the nature of . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 2020

Early-Morning Musings
on the Sacred

by R. R. Reno

Recently, I met a Wall Street trader. He was in his late thirties, perhaps his early forties. I was impressed by his active intelligence. We spoke of the current political situation and its odd combination of hysteria and complacency. Everybody seems to feel oppressed in some way. Many worry that . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 2020

Late-Night Musings on Nationalism

by Gilbert Meilaender

Pondering the endless glut of books on the virtues of nationalism and the failures of political liberalism, I sat up late the other night, reading around (yet again) in Augustine’s City of God before dozing off in my chair. Waking suddenly—or, at least, half-awake—my mind was . . . . Continue Reading »