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Paths of Conversation

The encounter with God is inseparable from the encounter with our fellow human beings. Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2023 0

Gambling and the American Pastime

Reading 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 »

24 Mar 2023 0

Israel's Great Compromise

by Shalom Lipner

The 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 »

23 Mar 2023 0

Naaman, the Nazarenes, and the Germans

by George Weigel

When 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 »

22 Mar 2023 0

Sharp Compassion

by Nathan M. Antiel

Anna DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more. Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2023 0

The New Intolerance

by Francis X. Maier

There 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 »

21 Mar 2023 0

Taking the Founders at Their Word

by Bradford Littlejohn

The 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 »

20 Mar 2023 0