Ellmers offers a helpful corrective from which Christians can learn. It is not enough to dismiss “wokeness” as a new and false religion, to be combatted with the true religion. Continue Reading »
I was very gripped by Kerri Christopher’s essay, “Three Christmas Dinners” (February 2023). I’ve not suffered such a thing myself, but just reading about the fractured family affairs of this essay induced in me a sense of emotional vertigo. I was cheered to read Micah Mattix’s essay, . . . . Continue Reading »
Jeffrey Bloom and Rabbi Gil Student join the podcast to discuss their recently edited collection of essays, Strauss, Spinoza & Sinai: Orthodox Judaism and Modern Questions of Faith. Continue Reading »
Leo Strauss reminds us that Christians are not exempt from the deeply political responsibility of reason. Continue Reading »
The Songbook inevitably has to analyze modernity, precisely because it is interested more in what rock reveals about our overall sociological and spiritual situation than it is in rock itself. So what follows are two organizing posts concerning this. Here, I’ll quickly lay out my . . . . Continue Reading »
The 1920s and ’30s were a time of intense intellectual ferment in Germany. Radical questioning was the order of the day in every domain of thought, including religion. Take, for example, the uncompromising debate that took place between the young Leo Strauss and Julius Guttmann, a student of the . . . . Continue Reading »
J. David Hoeveler provides a sympathetic analysis of . . . . Continue Reading »
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