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Professor Herrick reflects on philosophy and 21st-century faith, on today’s podcast:
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Scott Yenor joins R. R. Reno to discuss South Korea’s extremely low birth rate, and what this means for American men and women.
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The team that once defied racists has now caved in to anti-Catholic bigots.
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The Kigali Commitment recognizes that Archbishop Welby has abandoned his office.
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Humility and chastity: These would be more fitting themes to promote during this month of June.
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Old-style blasphemy involved desecrating God. Today’s blasphemy involves suggesting that man cannot create himself in any way he chooses.
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The Kigali Commitment marks the beginning of a new chapter for Anglicans.
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Anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice in American elite culture.
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What would a god do, if he lived among men? Should not the answer to this question help answer other questions, especially questions about what we should do with our own lives?
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When you look at grainy videos of European immigrants arriving at Ellis Island, hope shining on their faces, remember that every single one of them has an unmarried bisexual great-great-granddaughter on long-term birth control & SSRIs. |
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Christ guaranteed victory, but he did not promise it would come without hardship and penance.
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When you raise children to believe in God, they have a final authority to answer to. Not you, not the president, not even their favorite YouTube personality, can fully control them.
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We will not walk together with those who are blessing sin. Canterbury will no longer define the global Anglican polity.
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Over the past several weeks, the Dodgers have demonstrated a cringe-inducing cravenness in the face of woke pressures.
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My secular atheist childhood offered me no God, no church, no temple, no prayers, no heaven, no hell. It was like living in the song “Imagine.” |
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Much like St. Paul on his missionary journeys, we will encounter hostility or even persecution, but we must remain resolute.
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"My secular atheist childhood offered me no God, no church, no temple, no prayers, no heaven, no hell. It was like living in the song 'Imagine,' but without Yoko Ono. At Christmas, there was no God but Santa, and Rudolph was his messenger."
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Benedict repeatedly returned to the priority of religious freedom as both a civil right and a teaching of the Church.
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Zena Hitz joins Mark Bauerlein on the podcast to discuss her new book, “A Philosopher Looks at the Religious Life.” |
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At the end of the day, politics, even the “correct” politics, will not suffice to inoculate children against the seductions of modern culture. |
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During the Normandy invasion of June 6, 1944, FDR led the nation in prayer: “These men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest . . .” From the archives:
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Kevin Clark joins the podcast to discuss his new book, “The Liberal Arts Tradition: A Philosophy of Christian Classical Education.”
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A betting man might have put his money on dispensationalism swallowing the nascent Fundamentalist movement whole. A betting man would have backed the wrong horse.
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Sleeping on the ground strips away the illusion that any earthly thing can protect us.
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Christians are called not to seek a safe haven, but to be salt and light in the world.
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When our grandkids find themselves alone in the house on a summer afternoon, few will find themselves gripped by a sudden fear that everyone except them has been taken in the rapture.
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I felt surprisingly safe in the wilderness, among the junipers and the rocks. I would fall asleep quickly and sleep soundly almost every night.
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All of a sudden, all eyes went skyward.
But if the swans were jealous, they held their peace.
I bet they knew, by then, they’d had their chance.
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The vehicle for Holden’s new life is his sister Phoebe, who like her namesake, Phoebus Apollo, the god of light and healing, enlightens and mends Holden’s broken mind.
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Kevin Clark joins Mark Bauerlein on the podcast to discuss the liberal arts.
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A recent poll shows that a majority of Armenians now think of France and the U.S. as potential political partners rather than Russia.
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By expelling slavery and clearly establishing American citizenship on a nonracial basis, the people agreed to restore our older and better traditions of freedom and citizenship.
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Hummel reminds us, “Christianity is inescapably eschatological.” That is so because faith cannot exist without hope.
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This world is a homeless one. Perhaps this is why, in order to return to a house and make it a home, I first needed to tear away everything else and simply stand outside, beneath the stars.
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How could I reject homosexual sex when I didn’t reject contraception? |
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Save us, O Holy Cross.
Signpost of the times,
Gnomon of the age,
Axes of creation,
Save us, O Holy Cross.
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Find out what readers like you had to say about our April 2023 issue:
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More than 120,000 Christian Armenians continue to face the threat of ethnic cleansing in Nagorno Karabakh, a region inside Azerbaijan.
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