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October brought the news that Catholics in Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, had long dreaded. Falling Mass attendance has hollowed out parishes across the metropolis, and a vocations...

The dispute between Highland Park Methodist Church (HPMC) and the Horizon Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC) has entered the national conversation. Ruth Graham covered the story...

Within just one week, two massacres of Christians took place that went almost unnoticed. In Jordan, nine Christians were killed and dozens more wounded during a funeral procession at...

It is seven years since the publication of Dominion by Tom Holland, the much-discussed book in which the English historian set out the case for Christianity’s fundamental rewiring of the Western mind...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once declared, “All history resolves itself very easily into the biography of a few stout and earnest persons”—a good example of transcendentalist bluster. Samuel Johnson was less grandiose...

In 2014, Aaron Sorkin published an op-ed in the New York Times arguing that journalists should refuse to write about any of the private information, including emails, leaked...

The controversial publication, withdrawal, and then republication by Christianity Today of an article suggesting Elisabeth Elliot was bisexual, amid a wave of layoffs and resignations that has stripped...

Toward the end of the recent Roman meeting to discuss the Church’s twenty-first-century mission to marriage and the family, Pope Leo XIV asked the participating bishops to share their...

During marriage prep, my wife and I had to take the “Five Love Languages” test, a pseudoscientific test through which people “discover” how they prefer to receive affection. The...

Fjord, Romanian director Cristian Mungiu’s Palme d’Or–winning film, is the kind of movie you desperately want to have a happy ending. Based on a true story, the film follows...

In 2013, I was one of five mothers who, unsatisfied with schooling options in MetroWest Boston, came together to found a Catholic classical school. Having matriculated twenty-five students into...

Few women loom as large as Elisabeth Elliot in the pantheon of American evangelical saints. The martyrdom of her missionary husband, Jim Elliot, and colleagues at the hands of...

Of all the titles I’ve been tracking this year, the one I am most delighted to have in hand is Henri Coulette’s New and Selected Poems, edited by Michael Caines...

Throughout the summer, I visited the National Gallery in London at least once a week. This is not my usual practice, but I found myself unexpectedly drawn to the...

As the realistic English novel was emerging in a glorious birth amid the intellectual and moral tumult of the Enlightenment—the indomitable virtuous zeal of Samuel Richardson met at every...