Among the Infidels
by James HankinsChristians today are effectively living in partibus infidelium—in formerly Christian lands where infidels now press toward a future world we Christians can’t share. Continue Reading »
The Real Problem at Wheaton College
by James DiddamsAs college students are treated more as consumers than knowledge-seekers, what they learn and for what purpose becomes merely a consumer choice. Continue Reading »
In America, but Not of America
by Leah Libresco SargeantSome of the most tactically effective defenses of religious liberty rely on appeals to theories of rights or alliances with candidates who cut against the core of your faith. These strategies can win the battle but lose the war. Continue Reading »
Why Pro-Abortion Activists Desecrate Churches
by Carl R. TruemanWhile threats to disrupt worship en masse and even burn the sacramental elements seem to be overblown so far, the backlash against religion is surely a sign of the times. Continue Reading »
Unbelief, the Opiate of the Masses
by Kurt HoferAfter two centuries in which religiosity has been widely seen as the “opiate of the masses,” it’s time to turn the screws on the comfortably agnostic and atheist. Continue Reading »
Queering Veterans Day
by Carl R. TruemanNot every student at a Catholic university needs to be a faithful Catholic, but the institution itself absolutely must be. Continue Reading »
The Future of Faith-Based Schools
by Charles L. GlennReligious schools need to be protected from the imposition of a secular worldview and from the self-betrayal of pre-emptive capitulation. Continue Reading »
The Rise of the Religious “Nones”
by Mark BauerleinKerby Anderson joins the podcast to discuss his new Probe survey on the religious views and practices of American adults. Continue Reading »
Letters
by VariousAfter reading Douglas Farrow’s “The Secret of the Saeculum” (May), I found myself unsure of how to understand it. Take, for instance, the following striking passage: Our age is a very definite age, a very well-defined age, precisely because it is bracketed by the first and second comings of . . . . Continue Reading »
Secularism as Sexism
by Grant KaplanSex and Secularism by joan wallach scott princeton, 240 pages, $27.95 While traveling in Spain about twenty years ago, I attended the nearest Ash Wednesday Mass I could find. Upon returning from the communion line, I realized that, aside from the priest, I was the only male present. Catholicism, it . . . . Continue Reading »
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