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This is a dangerous moment for Israel. The debate over the source of absolute authority is sucking all the air out of the room.
Alex Zakaras and Mark Bauerlein discuss founding elements of modern American individualism.
“The state of ‘in-love-ness,’” Dorothy Day wrote, “is a preliminary state to the beatific vision, which is indeed a consummation of all we desire.” |
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De-publicizing, de-integrating, de-defining youth—taking it off the stage—dissolves character and inhibits growth.
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"The protests raging currently across Israel are, at their core, about this conflict over the essence of what it means to be a Jewish democracy."
My latest via .
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The German Synodal Way deconstructed Catholicism in the name of the allegedly superior culture of today.
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Israel and its friends need the country to get back on track.
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When the German bishops declare that they know better than God, they are behaving exactly like Adam and Eve.
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“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.” Eric Metaxas talks about Christian political responsibility with Mark Bauerlein. |
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In Bethany, what might the Lord have said
Had Martha never questioned Mary’s ways;
If Mary were the one to speak instead?
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Freedom is to be cherished because it paves the way to divine law.
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Beautiful things, removed from their intended purpose and misused, first become tiresome, then ugly, and then poisonous.
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Pride has infused, and thoroughly corrupted, the German Synodal Way.
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“A History of Present Illness” offers an etiology of the malady afflicting modern medicine.
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Mary Eberstadt does a marvelous job of showing why “Humanae Vitae” is not a burden. When lived with persistence and love, it’s a gift of sexual sanity and profoundly intimate satisfaction.
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Eric Metaxas weighs in on Christians’ political obligations. |
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Europe will one day die if, forgetting the heritage of Judaism and Christianity, she withers into something no longer recognizable as herself. From the archives:
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Though we may be, at the moment, plunged in darkness and tormented by every imaginable affliction, we will—in thirteen years or in three minutes—emerge once again into light.
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How has the evangelical church evolved within a chaotic American culture? From the archives:
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DeForest’s novel is an aesthetic achievement, and it suggests how medicine might be humanized or “restored through instruction” once more.
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People who think marital romance will dry up in their fifties need their heads examined.
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The Founders’ vision was a vision of religious liberty that made no room for licentiousness.
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Why does Jesus pity the blind man? Why does he heal him?
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Eric Metaxas joins Mark Bauerlein to discuss why Christians must courageously speak out. |
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It is the chaste person who is free from the lure of the enticing, the titillating, the demeaning, the base, and who consequently can exercise true and perfect prudence. From the archives:
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Theology that is truly catholic exemplifies a halting, sundered, imperfect unity.
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The clouds are fused with amber fire
As vultures climb a dirgy gyre,
Babel building with each bird,
Glutted on the primal Word.
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The time is long past when any educated person should pretend that Locke was the patron saint of the founding.
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But Lent does not issue forth merely in darkness and death. Lent gives way to the light and life of Easter morn.
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The medicine is the message. The nature of your discourse depends upon the popularity of your prescriptions.
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When student protests involve an attempt to persuade the speaker to think more deeply, the protesters are treating him as a human being, not as the Other.
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We ought to patronize the farm stands, the family-owned cafes and restaurants, the small shops, every good local business we possibly can.
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The authority of American bishops to provide for the liturgical nourishment of some faithful Catholics is squashed.
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The Catholic faith is of no interest or use to official Ireland—except for when there’s a need to emphasize how far the country has come, or why it mustn’t go back.
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Some on Side B normalize certain manifestations of same-sex desire, blurring the lines between proto-romance and “spiritual friendship.”
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As the word of the king directs a kingdom, so the word of the pastor directs the church.
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We misrepresent church-state relations when we characterize them as priest-king relations.
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Once we have obedience in a tablet—a drug that makes students sit still and attend to whatever faddish nonsense their teacher may be spouting—society can be independent no longer.
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