November 2021
Dark Age Theology
We are facing a Dark Age. In this new era, theology will need to be sparer, stripped…
Jonestown University
In the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict, Bucknell University, the liberal arts school where I work,…
Letters
Catholic Realities Ross Douthat’s summary of the state of the Catholic conversation (“Catholic Ideas and Catholic Realities,”…
T Is for Timeless
Once a month, a robin’s-egg-blue box arrives at our house. “Mama! Mama! My books are here!” shouts…
The Gospel According to Kanye
If you don’t pay too much attention to pop culture, you may be forgiven for thinking that…
They Did It for the Kids
Operation Varsity Blues,” the 2019 college admissions scandal, returned to the news earlier this year when a…
Safetyism
I don’t know anyone who believes in transhumanism, the techno-fantasy that we can merge our consciousness with computers…
Sexual Counter-Revolution
Planned Parenthood recently distributed flyers at Stewart Middle School in Tacoma, Washington. The flyers targeted eleven-year-olds, informing…
Tech Pluralism
Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are virtual public squares, allowing individuals to communicate…
The Failure of Evangelical Elites
There are times in history when Christianity feels its place in society coming under threat. As it finds…
Tolstoy’s Wisdom and Folly
In his speech “The Strenuous Life,” Theodore Roosevelt identified “the American character” with “the life of toil…
Audacious Abe
The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedomby h. w.…
Briefly Noted
All That God Cares About: Common Grace and Divine Delightby richard j. mouwbrazos, 176 pages, $22 Richard…
Dramas of Decline and Fall
The Index of Self-Destructive Acts: A Novelby christopher behatin house, 528 pages, $27.95 r Missionaries: A Novelby phil…
Reading Lewis
After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s the Abolition of Manby michael wardword on fire academic, 253 pages,…
The Necessity of Nationalism
After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Divisionby samuel goldmanuniversity of pennsylvania, 208 pages, $25 Those involved…
The Old Evangelization
Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empireby daniel i. wasserman-solerpenn…
Acorns
Listeningto acorns fallfrom the oaksin the last lightof a late summerday to land out ofsight on the…