Prayer As Thought Crime
by Elyssa KorenDid you think it was legal to pray silently in front of an abortion clinic? Think again. Continue Reading »
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What We’ve Been Reading—March 2023
by EditorsOur editors reflect on Gustave Flaubert, Anglo-Saxon illustrations, Yuko Tsushima, C. S. Lewis, and James Herriot. Continue Reading »
Liturgy of the Dinner Table
by Marlo SlaybackWe are hungry for encounters with Christ. The dinner table should be an intellectually, spiritually, and physically nourishing place. Continue Reading »
Paths of Conversation
by José GranadosThe encounter with God is inseparable from the encounter with our fellow human beings. Continue Reading »
Gambling and the American Pastime
by John WilsonReading this book gave me a sense of visiting another world, roughly a century ago, in some respects similar to ours but in other ways radically different: time-travel on the cheap. Continue Reading »
Israel's Great Compromise
by Shalom LipnerThe protests raging currently across Israel are, at their core, about the conflict over the essence of what it means to be a Jewish democracy. Continue Reading »
Naaman, the Nazarenes, and the Germans
by George WeigelWhen the German Synodal Way declares that it knows better than God about what makes for righteous living, happiness, and ultimate beatitude, it is behaving exactly like Adam and Eve, Naaman before his conversion, and the Nazarenes. Continue Reading »
Sharp Compassion
by Nathan M. AntielAnna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »
The New Intolerance
by Francis X. MaierThere is a new kind of intolerance “strangling open discussion across the West,” and this new brand of intolerance is linked closely with the sexual revolution. Continue Reading »
Taking the Founders at Their Word
by Bradford LittlejohnThe founding consensus combined a salutary emphasis on the necessity of public religion and broadly Christian moral foundations with a liberal forbearance from specifying or enforcing confessional particulars. Continue Reading »
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