Love Stronger Than Death
by Peter J. LeithartHere is the hope of the gospel: There is a love stronger than death, a love more jealously possessive than the grave. Continue Reading »
C. S. Lewis and Contraception
by Michael WardC. S. Lewis's writings betray no formal stance on contraception, though a close reading reveals his critical gaze on the topic, prohibited from speech by a sense of prudence. Continue Reading »
Five Rules for Living Faithfully in the Digital Age
by Samuel D. JamesThis 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 »
Love on the Streets of LA
by Mark BauerleinGregory Boyle joins the podcast to discuss his new book, The Whole Language: The Power of Extravagant Tenderness. Continue Reading »
The Social Cost of Online Dating
by Anna Bonta MorelandDating apps lead young people to settle for a quick fix, a temporary satiation of a deep, human desire to love and be loved, to know and be known. Continue Reading »
Canceling Love in the Name of Love
by Peter J. LeithartThe effort to preserve life by prohibiting the living of it doesn’t work. Continue Reading »
Requiem for Ethel
by David B. WesterYour eyes sparkled. And there was playfulnessIn your smile that veiled your age,Softening the hard years with its warm caress. And oh, that accent—that Louisiana drawl—It dripped like summer-morning dewIn fields long in grass before harvest fall. You reached out when you spoke, with . . . . Continue Reading »
Hope As a Natural Virtue
by Peter J. LeithartWe embark on the road of sanity only when we walk in hope; hope is the source of natural virtue. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousImmigration Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian realism, which was lately set forth in Matthew Schmitz’s “Immigration Idealism” (May), famously relegates Jesus’s social teaching to the realm of the ideal rather than the possible. Schmitz’s endorsement of this realism makes a mistake that . . . . Continue Reading »
Love Your Enemies
by Mark BauerleinFeaturing Arthur Brooks on his latest book, Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from Our Culture of Contempt. Continue Reading »
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