The Great Banquet
Is there some legitimate historical prophecy to which we may turn? Christendom replies to this question with a clear Yes. Christendom, after all, counts among its sacred scriptures the prophetic Book...
View ArticleReaching Into the Silence
Ours is a restless, noisy, superficial world terrified by silence, enthralled with politics, disdainful of interiority. The modern secular person looks out, perhaps even with pride, at its bleak...
View ArticleReligion Without Consequences
Consequential religion strikes fear in those who tragically have no faith. When they see that some believe firmly in a loving and Almighty God who takes an active role in worldly affairs, they sense...
View Article“Oppenheimer,” or a Cry for Truth in the Waste Land
Christopher Nolan’s rightly celebrated movie is not what you expect to see. It uses the life and times of the father of the atomic bomb to denounce a world made wretched by the lack of truth. And T.S....
View ArticleThe Paradox of Choice
Our fundamental mistake is that we conflate freedom with a multiplicity of options. This view of freedom is actually paralyzing—we are enchained by our inability to make a decision. Thankfully, this...
View ArticleThe Incarnation of Truth and Love
The real claim of Christmas, for Christians, is that Truth and Love penetrated the cosmos. Christmas is a warm, loving, and tender season precisely for this reason. That warm fire, or bright sky, or...
View ArticleMark Twain’s “Joan of Arc”
“I studied that girl, Joan of Arc, for twelve years,” Mark Twain said, “and it never seemed to me that the artists and the writers gave us a true picture of her. They drew a picture of a peasant. But...
View ArticleBlind Benjamin Franklin
Even today, many Americans take an intentionally anti-intellectual stance, agreeing with the rationalists that faith and reason are incompatible. Blind Benjamin Franklin is father to them all. Apart...
View ArticleReligion & Celebrity: The Search for Meaning in the 1920s
By the early decades of the twentieth century, at the very moment when physicists were dismantling formerly irrefutable truths about nature and the universe, science had become the foundation of the...
View ArticleBelief and the Public Square
Authentic human creativity offers an image of divine creativity. Its purpose-to bring about a civilization of love to give glory to God-can only be achieved when freedom is properly understood as the...
View ArticleThe Culture of Infinitude
What’s needed at this juncture in our cultural evolution is a rebirth of healthy modesty about human being and human fate, a realization that we are imperfect and imperfectible, particular and...
View ArticleAgainst Moral Progress
Morality only “progresses” as a phenomenon of gift, in which what is good and worth doing is seen as good and worth doing by a subsequent generation, which takes on the morality of their fathers and...
View ArticleLetter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
With my own hand I have written and put together these words to be given and handed on and sent to the soldiers of Coroticus. I cannot say that they are my fellow-citizens, nor fellow-citizens of the...
View ArticleBridging the North-South Divide: Jonathan Edwards and James Thornwell
The narrative of a North-South divide in American History is a powerful, yet problematic one. However, closer metaphysical inspection of both regions uncovers a series of considerable similarities and...
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