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December 2014

December 15, 2014

Our Bad People and Their Rights

Americans, writes Brandon McGinley in The danger of taking for granted that America is a just...

December 15, 2014

New York Encounter 2015

In the "quest to redefine our identity, in the struggle between our boundless aspirations and...

December 03, 2014

Conservatives v. the Police

Many conservative websites and writers, significant, sane ones, have become more and more critical of the...

December 02, 2014

Lessons From Early African Christianity

On the almost always interesting Reformation 21, philosopher Bruce Baugus relays a lesson from Philip...

November 2014

November 10, 2014

The New York Encounter

In the "quest to redefine our identity, in the struggle between our boundless aspirations and...

November 05, 2014

Reviving Aramaic

Hoping to establish a clear identity separate from their Muslim neighbors, some Arab Israeli Christians...

October 2014

October 08, 2014

Tracts, Predation, and Charity

I've had this experience a few times and it feels, I must say, predatory. You...

September 2014

September 01, 2014

The Intellectual Life

A few quotes of use to the student from A. G. Sertillanges’ The Intellectual Life. Sertillanges was a...

August 2014

August 13, 2014

The Power of Beauty, Also Eschatology

A conference readers may be interested in: The Power of Beauty, being held at the...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

The Spiritual But Not Religious Annoy a Pastor

"[H]is marriage ended, and he began to feel that the church was more his former...

July 18, 2014

Andrew Sullivan Makes Up Jesus

In yesterday's Love is Not Love, I quoted William Luse's explanation of why that popular...

July 09, 2014

Lewis & Orwell on Language

In Broken Families, Broken Words, I quoted C. S. Lewis's insight into what happens when...

July 09, 2014

Broken Families, Broken Words

“When . . . you have killed a word you have also, as far as in you lay,...

July 08, 2014

Put Not Your Trust in Princes

A friend, writing in an e-mail string lamenting the liberalization of the Anglo-Catholic movement of...

June 2014

June 26, 2014

Bring Back the Devil

There's no avoiding the Devil, Tim Stanley explains in the Daily Telegraph weblog. The Church of England...

June 12, 2014

The Future of Christianity

"I can’t see mainline protestant denominations surviving. They will not be influential," says retired Anglican...

June 08, 2014

When Strangers Tell You That You Have Too Many Children

"When we decide to stop having hot sex" is one of Pia de Solenni's friends'...