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Cutting the Cord

The familial, connective virtues of landlines live on in their wireless descendants. Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2022

Vocation in the Second Half of Your Life

I push back whenever a young woman tells me her vocation is to get married and have kids. Her vocation is not so limited. She may be called to marriage, but she’s also called to prepare for the life to come by prayer and sacrifice, by renouncing the things of this world, by thinking of what is above. Continue Reading »

8 Sep 2022

Our Sexy Life

by Peter J. Leithart

Sex has become abortive even when it doesn’t end with an abortion. Continue Reading »

8 Jul 2022

Leonard Cohen's Lost Children

by Jonathon Van Maren

Leonard Cohen lived long enough to see the freedom of the sixties turn into something else—something that, despite his enthusiastic personal participation, was poisonous, especially for the vulnerable. Continue Reading »

4 Jul 2022

Uvalde, Abortion, and the Limits of Compassion

by John Murdock

Gun rights advocates and abortion rights advocates should both mourn the loss of life engendered by their absolutist approaches to their political causes. Continue Reading »

3 Jun 2022

Five Rules for Living Faithfully in the Digital Age

by Samuel D. James

This isn’t about turning the cultural clock back to 1995. It’s about sustained flourishing in a digital age, which is only possible if we both test the spirits of the age and guard our hearts. Continue Reading »

3 May 2022

Babies Are a Lot Like Us

by Peter J. Leithart

“Suffer the little children to come to me” isn’t a piece of pious sentiment, but a starting point for scientific discovery. Continue Reading »

29 Apr 2022

Fruitful and Multiplied

by Liel Leibovitz

Dizengoff Street, a tree-lined corridor of commerce and pleasure, is Tel Aviv’s main artery. Squint a little, and you could easily imagine that you’re standing not in sunbaked Israel, a short drive from the Gaza Strip, but in Barcelona, say, or Berlin, or Manhattan. Take a closer look, however, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2022

Mirrors of Perfection

by Ephraim Radner

Our society is confused about children. We allow their destruction in the womb and their manufacture in the laboratory, a contradictory denial and affirmation of their inestimable value that tells us a great deal about our strange times. In our cold calculus, we allow that children are necessary to . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2022