Lust and Augustine

by Dale M. Coulter

For Augustine, love is the most basic appetite of the soul. Continue Reading »

12 Jul 2018

The Cosmic Gamemaker

by Kevin Jackson

People are changed by and through relationships of love—with God and with each other.  Continue Reading »

3 May 2018

The Burdensome Myth of Romantic Love

by David C. Dollahite and Betsy VanDenBerghe

As people abandon religious institutions, they start expecting romantic relationships to satisfy their yearnings for transcendence. Continue Reading »

14 Feb 2018

The War on Poverty

by Luis E. Tellez

The poverty caused by the sexual revolution is growing at alarming rates; love, along with the clear articulation of sexual morality, is the solution.  Continue Reading »

7 Dec 2017

What’s Love Got to Do with Transhumanism?

by Wesley J. Smith

Transhumanism operates under the mistaken belief that intelligence is “the most precious and powerful resource in existence.” Continue Reading »

23 Jun 2017

Redemption of the Erotic

by Charles J. Chaput

The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: The crime of the modern sexual regime is that it robs Eros of its meaning and love of its grandeur. It’s a lie. It’s a theft. It makes us small and ignoble.
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21 Feb 2017

Hazarding All

by Peter J. Leithart

The play begins and ends in the romantic world of magical, musical, moonlit Belmont, and in between descends into the gritty business of Venice. From the start, though, romantic and commercial concerns are linked. Continue Reading »

21 Oct 2016

Celibacy, Self-Acceptance, And the Extra Inkling

by Eve Tushnet

Descent into Hell is a complex portrait of the relationship between the living and the dead. It's a book of apologetics written in the style of horror. And it's a book about acceptance. Continue Reading »

6 Sep 2016

Love Is Barefoot Philosophy

by Raymond Hain

Plato’s Bedroom succeeds by starting outside of religion, by unsettling all of us, showing us why our erotic lives are so important and problematic, so beautiful and at the same time potentially destructive, why love and death are never far from one another. Continue Reading »

23 Aug 2016

Loving Our Enemies

by William Doino Jr.

Even when our enemies are so corrupt and evil that there is no discernible sign of good in any of them, we can at least recognize that they are fellow human beings and children of God—however much they have violated His commands—and love and pray for them on that basis alone. Continue Reading »

15 Aug 2016