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38.4—Jul/Aug, 2025
A Guidepost in Our Current Misery
Chateaubriand’s The Genius of Christianity
38.4—Jul/Aug, 2025
On Misunderstanding Christian Formation
38.4—Jul/Aug, 2025
on the True Value of Degenerate Platitudes
38.4—Jul/Aug, 2025
38.4—Jul/Aug, 2025
Principles for Living in the Negative World
38.4—Jul/Aug, 2025
A Cross We Must Now Take Up
38.4—Jul/Aug, 2025
Choosing to Be Christian in a New World
38.2—Mar/Apr, 2025
On the 1,700th Anniversary of Nicaea
38.2—Mar/Apr, 2025
on Dwelling in Benedict's Retired Place
38.2—Mar/Apr, 2025
on Our Creaturely Rejection of a Theophanizing God
38.2—Mar/Apr, 2025
The Question of Human Identity
The Full Christian Answer to Modernity's Crisis
38.1—Jan/Feb, 2025
All Things Are Full of Gods by David Bentley Hart
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
Timber Framing, Poetic Knowledge & the Curse of Sin
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
Cultural Sanctification: Engaging the World Like the Early Church
by Stephen O. Presley
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
A Conversation with Stephen C. Meyer
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
We Must Restore Wasted Humanity
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
on Pondering the Destiny of All Mankind
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
on How Man Defeated Death & the Devil
37.4—Jul/Aug, 2024
Who Says the Broad Way to Destruction Is Forever Closed?
37.1—Jan/Feb, 2024
What God Has Joined We Must Stop Separating
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
On Lightning Clarity at a Divinity School
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
Christian Tradition Is a Subversive Witness Against Modern Funeral Practices
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
A Panel Discussion with Robert P. George, David Dockery, Patrick Henry Reardon & Anthony Esolen
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
on David Marshall’s Take on Chinese Religion & Tradition
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
Modern Post-Conversion Identity in the Light of Augustine’s Example
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
on Spurning the Idol of Niceness
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
The Tucker Carlson Episode & the Teaching of Jesus
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
Conservatism, Maturity & the Demonic
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
on Scottish Gaelic & the End of All Good Things
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
“His Eye Is on the Sparrow”
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
The Sweetness of Scripture Is Not Just for Beekeeping Monks
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
The Catholic Benedict XVI, RIP
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
Machen's "Christianity and Liberalism" Then & Now
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
Homily at a Grandson's Baptism
on the One Thing That Truly Matters
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints by Jessica Hooten Wilson
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
The Right Reverend Emerges from Retirement in 1930 to Publish a Critique of Resolution 15 of the Lambeth Conference
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
on a Most Conscientious Believer
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
The Eclipse of Mere Christianity & the Vision of the Elect
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
The Evangelical Theology of the Orthodox Church by Bradley Nassif
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
The Sinful Manipulation of Weights & Measures
by Dylan Pahman & Alexander William Salter
35.6—Nov/Dec, 2022
The Grammar of Wisdom & the Rhetoric of Prophecy
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
The Unbroken Thread: Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos by Sohrab Ahmari
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
on the Purpose of Salvation According to Jesus & Paul
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Encouragement for Christians Preparing for the End
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
Christian Fidelity vs. the Sterile Conformity of the State
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
The World of Matter & Spirit United in Praise of Its Creator
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
on the Untamed Tongue of a Medieval English Monk
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
Quod Ubique, Semper, et Ab Omnibus
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
James Lindsay's Search for Love & Meaning Without God
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
Baptism: A Guide to Life from Death by Peter J. Leithart
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
The Times Require Mercy for the Fight
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
The Cascading Beauty of Fractals in C. S. Lewis, Scripture & Art
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
Truth, Suffering & the Hard Road Ahead
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
on Fatigued Christians Deciding to Engage the Culture
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
Retrieving Compunction & Introspection
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
An Ancient Festival's Enduring Lessons
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
Return of the God Hypothesis: Three Scientific Discoveries That Reveal the Mind Behind the Universe by Stephen C. Meyer
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
on Abraham, Aeneas & Our Heroic Tradition
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
Are Our Souls Still "Tenable" After Covid?
35.1—January/February, 2022
Can We Strengthen Our Congregations Before It's Too Late?
35.1—January/February, 2022
on the Church's Failure in the Pandemic as Symptomatic
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
The Days of Avoiding Giving Offense Are Over
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
on Fourteen Theses on the Virgin Birth
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
Reading Beowulf, Magnifying Christ
What Tolkien Taught Me About the Gospels
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
on Signs of Mercy & Judgment at the World Trade Center
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
on Absurd Conclusions over Baptismal Validity
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
What on Earth Is Heaven? by James Paul
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
The Case for Authentic Christian Higher Education
34.4—July/August, 2021
Touchstone & the "Devout" Friends of Abortion
34.4—July/August, 2021
34.4—July/August, 2021
Four Essentials Every Christian Is Called to Embrace
34.2—March/April, 2021
On the Real Division in Play
34.2—March/April, 2021
34.2—March/April, 2021
on How We Participate in the Eternal Word
34.2—March/April, 2021
on Mortality as a Framework for Life & Love
34.2—March/April, 2021
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Timely Search for a Christian Response to Nazism
34.1—January/February, 2021
Jesus' Astonishing Other Teaching on Marriage
34.1—January/February, 2021
34.1—January/February, 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
Why We No Longer But Still Could Have Beautiful Things
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
on an Enduring Story of Sacrifice to Save Others
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
on One Word That Explains the Current Delusions
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
The Unendurable Fullness of God
The Effects of the Fall as a Divine Protection Plan
33.4—July/August, 2020
Christ-Centered History Elevates Us All
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
33.4—July/August, 2020
on Positive Psychology and the "Chief End of Man"
33.4—July/August, 2020
33.3—May/June, 2020
Human & Divine Societies Require Careful Thought & Discourse
33.3—May/June, 2020
on the Authenticity of the Apostles' Creed
33.3—May/June, 2020
On Flight & Fight in the Present Tribulation
33.3—May/June, 2020
Our Christian Duty to Fight Has Not Been Cancelled
33.1—January/February, 2020
33.1—January/February, 2020
Portrait of St. Luke in the Gospel Book of Otto III
33.1—January/February, 2020
On Beauty & the Personal Being of God & Man
33.1—January/February, 2020
32.6—November/December, 2019
Christian Politics Is Not of This World
32.6—November/December, 2019
Historical Truth, Beguiling Stories & Three Kinds of Hearers
32.6—November/December, 2019
32.6—November/December, 2019
32.6—November/December, 2019
The Holy Spirit Is Alive & Active in Narnia
32.6—November/December, 2019
on Taking Heed of the Parallels Between the Crises of Yesterday & Today
32.6—November/December, 2019
An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton
32.6—November/December, 2019
32.5—September/October, 2019
on When Christians Can't Compromise
32.5—September/October, 2019
Minimalism Is Not the New Christian Approach to Managing Possessions
32.5—September/October, 2019
The Orthodox Reality: Culture, Theology, and Ethics in the Modern World by Vigen Guroian
32.5—September/October, 2019
32.5—September/October, 2019
A First Step in Cultural Salvation
32.5—September/October, 2019
Will Growing Global Pushback on Sexuality Make Progressives Give Up & Leave?
32.4—July/August, 2019
on Probability, Death & the Existence of God
32.3—May/June, 2019
on Seeing with a "Devout, Intransitive Eye"
31.6—November/December, 2018
The Morals of the Story: Good News About a Good God
by David and Marybeth Baggett
31.4—July/August, 2018
Our Secular Age: Ten Years of Reading and Applying Charles Taylor
31.4—July/August, 2018
on God's Pictures of Life & Death & Eternity
31.3—May/June, 2018
The Christian Asylum Seekers of Bangkok
31.3—May/June, 2018
on Christ's Commandments & True Discipleship
31.2—March/April, 2018
on a Strength That Is from God Alone
31.2—March/April, 2018
The Transmission of Christianity Is Not a New Task
31.2—March/April, 2018
on Being the Biggest Sinner in the Room
31.1—January/February, 2018
on Augustine & Refusing to Grieve As Others Do
31.1—January/February, 2018
on Taking the Measure of the Deserving & the Undeserving Poor
31.1—January/February, 2018
Consumer Man versus Working Man: Thoughts on the Value of Work
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
on Benedict XVI on the Fairest of the Sons of Men
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
When the Inevitable Questions of Suffering Confront the Living God
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
Despair, Imagination & the Re-enchantment of the World
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rod Dreher
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
on Ancient & Modern Witnesses to a Fruitful Endowment
30.4—July/Aug, 2017
American Christianity: The Continuing Revolution by Stephen Cox
30.3—May/June, 2017
on Modern Education as a Deal with the Devil
30.3—May/June, 2017
Christian Formation in Our Apocalyptic Age
30.3—May/June, 2017
Insider Attempts to Disorient the Orthodox
30.2—March/April, 2017
Beware Scandalizing Unbelievers
30.2—March/April, 2017
Our Path to Holiness Runs Straight Through Calvary
30.2—March/April, 2017
The Education of Children Takes Generations of Fidelity
30.2—March/April, 2017
on Pacifism Today & in the Early Church
30.2—March/April, 2017
What the Church Steadfastly Does Every Sunday
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
on the Importance of Poetry in Christian Education & Life
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
Where Young Christian Families Are Finding New Roots
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
Truly Authentic Sex & Rightly Ordered Love
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
on Captain Kirk, Contraception & Christian Tradition
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
on the Burdens & Blessings of Beasts at Christmas
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
George Parkin Grant on the Deep & Abiding Tension Between Christianity & Modernity
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
The Mustard Seed & the Wonders of His Kingdom
29.5—Sept/Oct, 2016
on Past & Present Atheism & the Invention of Happiness
29.4—July/August, 2016
on George MacDonald & the Christian Imagination
29.3—May/June, 2016
Christians, Imperialism & the Rule of Law
29.2—March/April, 2016
on Cutting Christ Down to One Size Fits Whatever We Want
29.2—March/April, 2016
on Christian Stewardship & Climate Change
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
Secular Credibility Is a Devilish Temptation
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
People and Events That Shaped Christianity by Ralph E. MacKenzie
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
Knowledge and Christian Belief
by Alvin Plantinga
29.1—Jan/Feb, 2016
on Progressive Myths & Christianity's Deeper Revolution
28.5—Sept/Oct, 2015
Christian Heroism & Humility in the Work of J. R. R. Tolkien
28.4—July/Aug, 2015
on a Rabbi's Love for Mere Christianity
28.4—July/Aug, 2015
What All Clergy Can Learn from Billy Graham
28.3—May/June, 2015
on the Formation of Conscience for Good or Ill
28.3—May/June, 2015
The Rebirth of Latin American Christianity by Todd Hartch
28.3—May/June, 2015
on the Truth About a Slanderous Accusation
28.2—March/April, 2015
on Divine Worship & the Natural Limits of Community
27.6—Nov/Dec, 2014
Becoming Human: Meditations on Christian Anthropology in Word and Image
by John Behr
27.5—Sept/Oct, 2014
The Role of Christianity in Peter Drucker's Early Work
27.5—Sept/Oct, 2014
on Growing Vegetables as a Primer in Moral Philosophy
27.4—July/August, 2014
on Robert W. Fogel & the Christian Legacy on Slavery
27.3—May/June, 2014
The Global War on Christians: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Anti-Christian Persecution
by John L. Allen, Jr.
27.3—May/June, 2014
27.2—March/April, 2014
on the Revisionist Narrative of Christian Hope
27.1—Jan/Feb, 2014
Return to Order: From a Frenzied Economy to an Organic Christian Society
by John Horvat II
26.6—Nov/Dec, 2013
The Neo-Gnostic "Alternative Christianity" of Elaine Pagels
26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013
asks, What Happened to the Ten Commandments?
26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013
Christian Schools & Racial Realities
on Desegregation & the Rise of Christian Education in the South
26.5—Sept/Oct, 2013
The Perils of Pragmatism in Christian Attitudes Toward the Liberal Arts
26.4—July/August, 2013
A Christian Reflection on the Attractions & Shortcomings of Buddhism
26.4—July/August, 2013
on the Unchristian Maneuvers of the Sectarian Mind
26.3—May/June, 2013
The Legacy of the Mission of Cyril & Methodius 1,150 Years Later
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
Inklings of Reality: Essays Toward a Christian Philosophy of Letters by Donald T. Williams
26.3—May/June, 2013
Public Health, Government Obesity & Church Resistance
26.2—Mar/Apr, 2013
on Liberal Klingons & the Hard Facts of Christian Faith
26.2—Mar/Apr, 2013
The History & Revelation of Anamnesis in Platonic, Jewish & Christian Thought
26.1—Jan/Feb, 2013
on Christian Honesty About the Harm of Fornication
25.5—Sept/Oct, 2012
on Christian Orthodoxy & the Self-Revelation of God
25.5—Sept/Oct, 2012
Sherlock Holmes, Umberto Eco & the Search for Meaning
25.5—Sept/Oct, 2012
on Death in Baptism as a Necessary Prerequisite to Resurrection
25.4—July/August, 2012
on the Christian's Duty to Be Strictly Loving
25.4—July/August, 2012
The Trials of the Christian Wayfarer in the World
25.4—July/August, 2012
on an Unnoticed Transformation of the Cause of Disease
25.3—May/Jun, 2012
on Jonathan Sacks’s Mistake About Christians
25.3—May/Jun, 2012
on What We Used to Know vs. What We Know Now
25.2—March/April, 2012
Fast & See That the Lord Is Good
25.2—March/April, 2012
The Secular & Anti-Christian Origins of the Holocaust
25.1—Jan/Feb, 2012
The Christian Humanism of Marshall McLuhan
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
The Lord's Truth & the Casualty of Politics
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
At the Roots of Christian Bioethics: Critical Essays on the Thought of H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.
edited by Ana Smith Iltis and Mark J. Cherry
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
on a Stealthy Theft of Christian Holy Days
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
on the Versified Dogma of Christian Worship
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
My 500-Mile Pilgrimage on El Camino de Santiago
24.5—Sept/Oct, 2011
The Many Parallels Between France’s Revolution & Today’s Anti-Christian Secularism
24.4—July/August, 2011
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy,
and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
by James Davison Hunter
24.3—May/June, 2011
on Christian Courtship & the Awkward Question of Sexual History
24.3—May/June, 2011
C. S. Lewis & Rudolf Otto’s The Idea of the Holy
24.2—March/April, 2011
on Christian Asceticism & the Misguided Quest for Longevity
24.2—March/April, 2011
on the Christian’s Final Word About Suffering
24.1—January/February, 2011
An Orthodox Christian View of a Beseiged Sacrament
24.1—January/February, 2011
Ruminations on the Monstrous Envy of the Soul-Devouring State
23.5—September/October, 2010
The Loss of a Christian Understanding of Virginity Is Pure Tragedy
23.5—September/October, 2010
on Real Christianity for Losers
23.4—July/August, 2010
American Babylon: Notes of a Christian Exile by Richard John Neuhaus
23.3—May/June, 2010
The Christian & the Tattoo
23.2—March/April, 2010
On the Origins of the Primary Feast of the Christian Church
22.7—September/October, 2009
Christians Responding to Muslim Invitations Haven’t Been Listening to Benedict XVI
22.6—July/August, 2009
on the Integration of Anger into the Virtuous Life
22.3—April, 2009
Matthew’s Trial of Jesus Is About More than Jesus
20.9—November, 2007
The Patriot Loves His Land Because It Is a Shadow
18.10—December, 2005
on an Apostle’s Encounter with the Son’s Children
13.4—May, 2000
on the Duty of Professionals
14.1—January/February, 2001
The Feminization of the Church & the Need for Christian Fatherhood
15.6—July/August, 2002
Christianity & the Cult of Indigenous People
15.2—March, 2002
Why Dogma Is Needed & Why Substitutes Fail
14.10—December, 2001
on Islam, Christianity, and Moral Education
8.4—Fall, 1995
The Demise of Biblical Preaching
Distortions of the Gospel and its Recovery
7.1—Winter, 1994
A Stick Becomes the Staff of God
Reflections on Faithfulness in the Ordinary & the Routine
6.3—Summer, 1993
6.3—Summer, 1993
On Turning the Cheek & Giving the Cloak
1.2—Winter, 1987
A Twentieth Century Reconsideration
more from the online archives
32.1—January/February 2019
on Down Syndrome & the Lives That Matter by David F. Watson
34.1—January/February 2021
Live Not by Lies: A Manual for Christian Dissidents by Rod Dreher by Hans Boersma
30.6—Nov/Dec 2017
on Benedict XVI on the Fairest of the Sons of Men by Michael Martin De Sapio
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