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A new book collects a wide assortment of Reformers's commentary on some of the most dramatic books of the Old Testament. Continue Reading »

Wanting to Love the Pope

Catholics love the pope, want to love the pope, and Francis deserves their love and fidelity.

But to the degree Catholics also really know their faith, love the Church, and seek to live her teachings, many are also increasingly uneasy. Continue Reading »

Donald Trump and the Great Projection

For many liberal activists, fear of Trump is fear that what they would have done with power now will be done unto them. Continue Reading »

On our Need for the Real Thomas More

A Man for All Seasons is a magnificent religious film—perhaps the best ever—despite its author’s stated intentions. Continue Reading »

Calvinist Environmentalism?

With Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise of American Environmentalism, Mark Stoll chronicles how conservationism and its green progeny arose from Calvinism. “When Emerson advised the solitary individual to seek mystical union with the Divine in the woods,” writes Stoll, “he simply restated long-standing Calvinist advice.” Continue Reading »

Losing Control of History

If there is one concept that’s taken a massive hit from Donald Trump’s election, it is the idea that secular history can be predicted with certainty by “experts.” Continue Reading »

Leonard Cohen, Religious Alchemist

Cohen is an Old Testament poet who can comprehend the New Testament without great strain or contradiction. Continue Reading »

The Ecumenical Gospel

Is the gospel identical with the Protestant doctrine of salvation? Or is the gospel a message about God's Son that Protestants and Catholics affirm together? Continue Reading »

Escaping the Narcisphere

Any mention of “narcissism,” by this time, should cause in most thinking people a kind of Inigo Montoya reaction: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Continue Reading »

Gloucester Fisherman, American Veteran, Polish Benefactor

The remarkable, wonderful story of Curtis Dagley and the Poles who remembered him with gratitude seventy years later is a poignant reminder of real American greatness. Continue Reading »