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36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Our Political Void & the Disintegration of Truth
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
The Hard Ascent to a Bewildering Virtue
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Notes Toward the Restitution of Christian Culture
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
The Reality of Divine Law
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
How the Sexual Revolution Dehumanizes Everything
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
On the Ennobling Presence of a Goodly Place
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
In Defense of the True, the Good, and the Beautiful: On the Loss of Transcendence and the Decline of the West by Jordan Cooper
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
The World of Matter & Spirit United in Praise of Its Creator
34.2—March/April, 2021
on How We Participate in the Eternal Word
34.1—January/February, 2021
on the Promiscuous Use of the Word "Values"
33.4—July/August, 2020
on Making the Grades in Longevity & Life
33.4—July/August, 2020
on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague
33.4—July/August, 2020
on Positive Psychology and the "Chief End of Man"
33.4—July/August, 2020
The Restoration of Man: C. S. Lewis and the Continuing Case Against Scientism by Michael Aeschliman
33.3—May/June, 2020
Our Modern Rights Tradition Has Much Older Roots Than Many Realize
33.2—March/April, 2020
The True Ways of Knowing in Ecclesiastes
33.2—March/April, 2020
on How the Naturalists Refute Themselves
33.1—January/February, 2020
On Beauty & the Personal Being of God & Man
33.1—January/February, 2020
Why Christian Platonism Is Key to the Great Tradition
32.6—November/December, 2019
An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton
32.5—September/October, 2019
2018 Conference Talk
32.5—September/October, 2019
Minimalism Is Not the New Christian Approach to Managing Possessions
32.5—September/October, 2019
Some Trivial Thoughts on the Study of Philosophy
32.4—July/August, 2019
Reception, Gratitude, & Witness on a Christian Campus
32.4—July/August, 2019
on Probability, Death & the Existence of God
32.4—July/August, 2019
Evolution of Desire: A Life of René Girard by Cynthia L. Haven
32.3—May/June, 2019
on the Infinite Problem of Goods & Evil
32.3—May/June, 2019
on Seeing with a "Devout, Intransitive Eye"
32.3—May/June, 2019
The Compelling "Bayesian" Case for Christ
32.2—March/April, 2019
Reality Shows, Even in a Popular TV Series
31.6—November/December, 2018
on the Paradiso as Light for the Christian Mind
31.6—November/December, 2018
The Living Space Between Faith & Reason
31.6—November/December, 2018
on Futility & the Open Door to Deliverance
31.4—July/August, 2018
The Art of Living by Dietrich von Hildebrand with Alice von Hildebrand
31.4—July/August, 2018
Life & Love Are Real Despite Theatrical Illusions
31.4—July/August, 2018
31.2—March/April, 2018
How Best to Face the Total War of the Anti-Culture
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
on Ancient & Modern Witnesses to a Fruitful Endowment
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
When the Inevitable Questions of Suffering Confront the Living God
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
George Parkin Grant on the Deep & Abiding Tension Between Christianity & Modernity
29.5—Sept/Oct, 2016
on Past & Present Atheism & the Invention of Happiness
29.4—July/August, 2016
on Anselm's God & the Virtue of Existing
27.5—Sept/Oct, 2014
Benedict XVI's Regensburg Lecture, St. John's Proemium & Intercultural Understanding
26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013
on the Holy Wisdom at the Roots of Philosophy
26.4—July/August, 2013
on Why the Apostle to the Gentiles Changed His Name
26.3—May/June, 2013
on the Eyes of the Heart & the Glory of God
26.3—May/June, 2013
Testing John Loftus's "Outsider Test for Faith" Shows Why There Are Billions of Christians Today
26.3—May/June, 2013
26.3—May/June, 2013
on the Un-humanitarian Charity of Martin de Porres
25.6—Nov/Dec, 2012
The Loss of Aristotelian Logic & the Social, Moral & Sexual Consequences
25.1—Jan/Feb, 2012
on What Raskolnikov Knew & Translators Have Lost
24.3—May/June, 2011
The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism by Edward Feser
24.2—March/April, 2011
Certain Death & the Last Lectures of Socrates & Jesus
23.6—November/December, 2010
Darwin, Design & Thomas Aquinas
The Mythical Conflict Between Thomism & Intelligent Design
21.7—September, 2008
Milton’s Postmodern Satan & His Disciples
21.6—July/August, 2008
Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason
19.1—January/February, 2006
on Death & Seven of the Last Words of Socrates
18.3—April, 2005
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson
13.4—May, 2000
13.4—May, 2000
Emily Dickinson and
the Art of Belief
by Roger Lundin
13.4—May, 2000
An Introduction to the Thought of Dorothy L. Sayers Through Her Letters
13.4—May, 2000
on the Duty of Professionals
13.5—June, 2000
Emotivism versus Traditional Morality
14.1—January/February, 2001
14.4—May, 2001
on the Errors of Determinism
16.4—May, 2003
Chesterton & the Aristotelian Tradition
10.3—Summer, 1997
The Cult of the Holy Catholic Gene
The Human Genome & the New Religion of the Scientific Social Engineer
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33.3—May/June 2020
On Flight & Fight in the Present Tribulation by Douglas Farrow
29.3—May/June 2016
A Deathbed Reflection on Catholic Social Teaching & Our Future Prospects by Karl D. Stephan
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