Why We Hunger for Beauty
by Francis X. MaierBeauty is an affirmation of our shared human dignity. It reminds us of life’s goodness in an age of transgressive narcissism and repudiation of the past. Continue Reading »
A Protestant Appreciation of Pope John Paul II
by Bruce Riley AshfordI cannot help but recognize in John Paul II a public theologian with a message relevant to our twenty-first-century situation. Continue Reading »
Dignity in Flames
by Dov LernerThe Hanukkah candles glisten through the winter, signaling that we need to see beyond mere utility, to discover in others an inalienable dignity. Continue Reading »
Letters From the Synod-2019: #6
Edited by Xavier Rynne IIThe conversation at Synod-2019 drinks more deeply from the wells of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Margaret Mead than from the living waters of biblical revelation. Continue Reading »
Vincent Lambert and Relative Justice
by Ed CondonWhen all our morality is relative, so too is our justice. Continue Reading »
Against the Dead Consensus
by VariousAny attempt to revive the failed conservative consensus that preceded Trump would be misguided and harmful to the right. Continue Reading »
What Makes Us Equal
by F. H. BuckleyAfter the 2016 election, when white working-class voters turned out for Donald Trump, the New York Times and the Washington Post sent their reporters to the hinterlands of Pennsylvania and West Virginia to see just what had happened. And off they went, like D.C. commuters sent . . . . Continue Reading »
Pro-Lifers: Get Out of Medicine!
by Wesley J. SmithDoctors in the United States cannot be forced to perform abortions or assist suicides. But there is a concerted campaign to change this. Continue Reading »
“Speciesism” Opens the Door to Bigotry
by Wesley J. SmithThose who throw out accusations of “speciesism” seek to subvert human exceptionalism. Their framework should be rejected as a prescription for tyranny every time it is proposed. Continue Reading »
We See Through a Sonogram, Darkly
by Leah Libresco SargeantIf we feel stymied by the imprecision of sonograms and other tools for looking inside the bodies of others, we should feel at least as frightened by the fallibility of our own wills, and the unreliable view they give us of the souls of others. Continue Reading »
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