Race and Redemption
by Gerald McDermottMany church leaders and parishioners are adopting a race narrative that is empirically and theologically suspect. Continue Reading »
A Procession Like No Other
by C. C. PecknoldOur way of walking and kneeling in the world will always be religious—whether kneeling before idols or before the one true God. Continue Reading »
“The Heavens Declare the Glory of God…”
by George WeigelAstronomy Picture of the Day provides me with a preview of what I hope to see post-mortem: the glory of God declared in a display of astronomical wonders. Continue Reading »
More Movies for Lockdown
by Mark BauerleinLet's add to the lists of movies that other periodicals have suggested people watch while stuck in their homes. Continue Reading »
A Dark Cloud For Democracy
by Carl R. TruemanBritain's news headlines are not dominated by events in its most recently ceded colony but by domestic protests about police violence in Minneapolis. Continue Reading »
Assisted Suicide By Zoom
by Wesley J. SmithThe American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying recently published formal guidelines that permit doctors to assist suicides via the Internet. Continue Reading »
The Vatican’s Choice: Jimmy Lai or Xi Jinping?
by George WeigelThis latest display of Beijing’s intent to enforce communist power in Hong Kong coincides with the most recent persecution of Jimmy Lai. Continue Reading »
A Call To Conversion
by Dale M. CoulterOpposing racism and prejudice must be part of the church’s pro-life stance. Continue Reading »
Phobos and Deimos
by R. R. RenoAt the beginning of book VII of Virgil’s Aeneid, auspicious winds send the ships of the Trojan hero and his warriors to the mouth of the Tiber, where they put ashore. An oracle has foretold their coming. Aeneas is welcomed by the king of the Latins, and an alliance is forged. The king’s . . . . Continue Reading »
Imprudent Expertise
by James HankinsHuman beings have always yearned to know the future, and there have always been other human beings who claimed they could predict it. The ancient Greeks consulted the sibyls, female oracles of great age who under divine inspiration uttered verses given them by the gods of the famous shrines they . . . . Continue Reading »
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