A 2025 YouGov poll revealed some interesting factoids about Americans’ reading habits—or lack thereof. Forty percent of us didn’t read a book last year. About a quarter of the... The…
First Things ↗Chip Conyers embodied—like none other whom I’ve ever known—the central Christian belief that we are already living in the New Age, that the Kingdom of God is not an idealistic…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Hiding in most of our pockets is a shiny black mirror with a logo on the back that evokes the forbidden fruit of Genesis 3. As the apple was the... The…
First Things ↗The Hemingway style—terse, direct, formidable, in both prose and personal deportment—dominated American literature and the native ideal of manliness for much of the twentieth century. His suicide in 1961,... The…
First Things ↗In any messy breakup, there are the inevitable conflagrations over custody of the kids, the dog, the vinyl collection. The parting of ways between the Catholic Church and the... The…
First Things ↗What happens to our ears goes down deep into our hearts. And the Church yearns for this humble reception of her Lord. This is her very Life. That’s why it’s…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗In the latest installment of the ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein, Tara Henley joins in to discuss her recent book, The Trust Spiral: Why the Media Needs... The…
First Things ↗The four senses remind us that Scripture was never meant to be read merely as an ancient text to be analyzed. It is God's Word that reveals Christ, forms disciples,…
Mere Orthodoxy ↗Though nothing can bring back the hourOf splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;We will grieve not, rather findStrength in what remains behind. —William Wordsworth, “Ode on... The…
First Things ↗In “The End of the Age of Hitler” (November 2024), Alec Ryrie observes that, as secularism advanced in recent decades, World War II replaced the New Testament as our... The…
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