The other month, I attended a conference thick with members of the clergy. It had everything you would expect: bad bagels for breakfast, a hurried nondenominational prayer to kick things off, and meeting rooms stacked with priests, rabbis, and imams grateful for a day off from the pulpit. I didn’t . . . . Continue Reading »
Something is wrong. Throughout the West, people are angry, anxious, and discontented. Paradoxically, the ill temper arises amid wealth unimaginable to our recent ancestors. (But perhaps this is not a paradox after all. Recall 1 Timothy 6:10: “For the love of money is the root of all evil.”) . . . . Continue Reading »
My fellow humanities PhDs, go where you are wanted. There are plenty of classical schools across the country eager to enlist your services. Continue Reading »
Perhaps more than at any time since Christianity’s early centuries, lay people will have to shoulder more responsibility in the work of the Church. Continue Reading »
Churches and Christians need to think about what hospitality looks like in our modern world as much as they think about other aspects of the faith. Continue Reading »
Recently, while reading Sally Rooney’s hugely acclaimed novels for the first time, I messaged a friend to say how bleak I was finding them. He replied that his impression of the books was different. In a way, we were both right. On the one hand, the novels have shafts of light and humor; . . . . Continue Reading »
Three-quarters of the way through his illuminating new book Regime Change, Patrick Deneen finds the key he’s been groping for over the past several years—the church. Then he drops it again. Continue Reading »
Megan Basham describes her experience of conversion into the evangelical church and present ideological pathologies growing within it. Continue Reading »