A Not-So-Secular Age
by John WilsonI don’t know for sure what the future, even the “near future,” holds, but I do know that—for the moment, at least—we do not remotely live in a “secular age.” Continue Reading »
An Evangelical’s Perspective
by John WilsonWe share the astonishing convictions and hopes that have sustained the faithful for 2,000 years, extravagant as they sometimes seem, all too often distorted by misguided believers, and yet as compelling today as they were to the first Christians. Continue Reading »
Men Without Conviction, Churches Without People
by George WeigelChristianity is dying in Europe, and irresponsible priests—who surrender the gospel to political fads—are largely to blame. Continue Reading »
Eating Locusts Will Be (Benedict) Optional
by Carl R. TruemanDispatches from a recent lecture by Rod Dreher.
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Faith-Based Resistance
by Charles L. GlennLast June, I was in Ukraine advising civil society groups that are seeking to ensure that the new Ukrainian education law promotes religious and educational freedom, including the rights of parents. Ukrainian policy-makers are eager to align their country with the West, so a number of times I . . . . Continue Reading »
Ireland: A Country Without a Conscience?
by William Doino Jr.Ireland’s recent decision to approve same-sex marriage, by popular referendum, has left the country’s Catholic reputation in ruins. Of course, this shift didn’t come about overnight—secularization has been in the works for some time—but the vote reinforces the feeling of a dramatic break with Ireland’s Catholic heritage, and a step into an uncertain future. Continue Reading »
The Dialectic and the Double Helix
by Thomas Albert HowardThe transatlantic divide might not run through the Atlantic but through the societies on either . . . . Continue Reading »
Secularizations
by Richard John NeuhausAs with most academic traditions, and especially those that are viewed as soft, there are orthodoxies and fashions, and sometimes sudden turns, that are conventionally described—following Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions of almost half a century ago—as paradigm . . . . Continue Reading »
Christianity and the West
by Wolfhart PannenbergThe importance of Christianity in the formation of Western civilization can hardly be denied. That importance is not simply a matter of the past. In the process of secularization Western culture did emancipate itself from its religious roots, but that emancipation was by no means complete. A . . . . Continue Reading »
Can Notre Dame Be Saved?
by David W. LutzIam a member of the United Methodist Church and a graduate student of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. One might ask why a United Methodist would go to a Roman Catholic university to study philosophy. The answer is, I am at Notre Dame because I cannot study philosophy at a Methodist . . . . Continue Reading »
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