The Archive
Brian AutenBook Reviews
Sunshine's 'Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism' clearly establishes that the counterculture of the "long 1960s" is not merely a left-wing or so-called "cultural Marxist" story, but that its appropriation and its impact is also discerned on the political right.
Nadya WilliamsFormationBook ReviewsEducationFamily
Prioritizing an education in the virtues, therefore, is a political exercise of supreme importance for the wellbeing of any state. Classical Christian education today certainly aims to recover this mission—thus the emphasis in the book’s title on “the American Mind.”
Marc SimsFilm Reviews/Hollywood
In a world that has flushed metaphysics down the toilet, the only “real” thing we have is our experience, our feelings. And if we fail to find salvation within, if we “open the window” and find not light, but darkness, then nothing remains.
Robert HaslerPCA Next Generation ForumChurch
Psalm 11 doesn’t besmirch utilitarian motivations for seeking refuge in God. It just won’t let you stop there. It directs us past the desire for earthly safety to the ultimate telos of life: the beatific vision, to see our God and Maker face to face, without a veil, and to enjoy him forever.
Sarah ReardonFormation
How we talk about our lives and desires is telling. Our speech about vacations and retreats reveals that Americans both in and outside of the church have accepted a particular mindset about work, life, and time
Derek RishmawyPCA Next Generation ForumChurchCulture
What the next generation needs is not our ability to catch a vibe, a wave, a revival, or a trend. Vibes shift and shift again. What they need is our continued commitment to ministering, yes, in culturally wise ways, but more fundamentally out of a bedrock of biblical conviction.
TechnologyChristine AgarwalFormation
What do we do to avoid becoming people who want all the ease, speed, and information without any of the work to get it?
Casey SpinksCulture
The very words of the Declaration already demand something like a faith commitment, both in the founders who signed it and the “one people” the Declaration claims is America itself.
Jake MeadorCultureFilm Reviews/Hollywood
Near the end of his essay on poetry and marriage Wendell Berry considers how free verse fits into his broader consideration of the relationship between fixed poetic forms and fixed
Daniel BennettMatthew LoftusKatelyn Walls SheltonSamuel JamesJohn SheltonAmerica 250
Ours is not a heritage of blood, nor of soil. Our heritage is one of the noblest ideas in the history of mankind, “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
Daniel K. WilliamsAmerica 250
Jefferson did not “live out the full meaning of [his] creed.” But he understood that when he declared that “all men are created equal,” he could never be fully comfortable with slavery again. He had set in motion an egalitarian revolution that is still ongoing.
Miles SmithEddie LaRowDaniel K. WilliamsNadya WilliamsAmerica 250
For together we are Americans; divided we are merely another power doomed to the shipwrecked seas of history. As a Christian, I am thankful that the Divine Will—the Sovereign Hand of God—is at work upholding and sustaining.