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“. . . [B]ad taste went hand in hand with bad theology. The person who favored mime homilies might well say, "I don't find the concept of Original Sin particularly helpful." The priest who offered a clown Mass might express his doubts about the Nicene Creed. . . . If a person welcomed a departure from the devotions, the architecture, even the liturgy of past tradition, he probably did this because outside the sanctuary, he was trained to prefer a sentimentalized form over authentic content. . . .”
"The Kitsch Council," OnePeterFive.com (July 6, 2020)
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Alexander F. C. Webster on One Word That Explains the Current Delusions
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Why We No Longer But Still Could Have Beautiful Things by Anthony Esolen
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24.6—Nov/Dec 2011
Liberty, Conscience & Autonomy
How the Culture War of the Roaring Twenties Set the Stage for Today’s Catholic & Evangelical Alliance by Barry Hankins
27.3—May/June 2014
Religious Freedom & Why It Matters
Working in the Spirit of John Leland by Robert P. George
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32.6—November/December 2019
An Open Letter to Christian Readers of Jordan Peterson & Roger Scruton by James Bryson
29.5—Sept/Oct 2016
on Past & Present Atheism & the Invention of Happiness by Jordan Bissell
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From Heavenly Harmony
on classical music
33.6 — November/December 2020
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on works of Christian art
33.6 — November/December 2020
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The Archdukes Albert and Isabella Visiting the Collection of Pierre Roose
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Mortal Remains
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Contours of Culture
on books & the spirit of the age
(2009-2014)
24.6 — Nov/Dec 2011
A. J. Conyers's The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit
26.5 — Sept/Oct 2013
Thomas de Zengotita's Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It
24.5 — Sept/Oct 2011
The Matter at Hand
on events of the day
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16.3 — April 2003
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Practical Christianity
pondering the Christian life
(1993–2004)
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32.2 — March/April, 2019
Wake-Up Call
The Apocalypse: Warning, Hope & Consolation
by Michael D. O'Brien
A review by Jeffrey Wald
32.4 — July/August, 2019
Then They Will Come for Us
Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis by Matthew D. Hockenos
A review by J. Daryl Charles
32.5 — September/October, 2019
A Dual Estrangement
Between Two Millstones: Sketches of Exile, 1974-1978
by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
A review by James A. Altena
32.6 — November/December, 2019
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