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Perhaps the Nails Run the Other Way: A Review of The Body of this Death
Hope remains, and it is the hope of the incarnation, which the Archbishop describes as the “technology of Catholicism.”
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Old Fred’s Night Music
What is the ideal that we sometimes glimpse within the world and which thus inspires our own attempts at order-making, at meaning-making?
Why Cormac McCarthy Stands Alone Among Novelists
McCarthy, a little before the rest of us, had caught a glimpse of Western Civilization’s end.
Speculators versus Farmers: A Review of The Land Trap
Land is only going to become more expensive and thus ever more unaffordable and inaccessible for the agrarians of the future.
Modern Man’s Problem: Disenchantment or Desecration? A Review of Carl Trueman’s The Desecration of Man
If desecration is the pervasive problem our day, then nothing less than consecration is the answer.
Running Toward A New Life
This is a book for every young man who has ever hit a crisis of meaning or purpose, despite possessing boatloads of knowledge.
Learning to Unknow: On James K.A. Smith’s Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark
By embracing the discomfort of unknowing, we come into a more profound awareness of love in all its splendor.
Haunted by Waters: A River Runs Through It at Fifty
We are ready to give ourselves. And yet we find that we do not know what part of ourselves to offer—or worse, that the part we have to give is not wanted.
An Affirmative Case for Christian Patriotism: A review of Daniel Darling’s In Defense of Christian Patriotism
A sense of biblically justified disavowal of one’s polity was not the norm in Christianity generally, and American Christianity specifically.
This Machine Kills Experience
The real impact of the digital revolution hits us directly in the place that matters most: our very experience of life
The Body a Virtual Age Most Needs
"You do not find your way back to the real by striving for it but by receiving it."
What Makes a Good Neighbor? A Review of The Perfect Neighbor by Geeta Gandbhir
On June 2, 2023, an Ocala, Florida woman named Susan Lorincz fired a shot through her locked and dead-bolted front door, killing her neighbor...
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