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Elizabeth SticeFormationFilm Reviews/HollywoodHealth & Medicine

The Stories We Tell Ourselves About Living and Dying

The representation of so-called "assisted dying" on Hacks is harmful because it is dishonest about dignity in such situations. 

Matthew SchultzTechnologyFormationMagnifica Humanitas

The Kiln of Proceduralism: On the Failures of Magnifica Humanitas

Soon Leo will be dialoguing with a people formed by a machine intelligence that propagates counterfeit inhabitation, one that accustoms people to experience Christianity by asking a chatbot to teach them the Nicene Creed. Is he ready for that? Are we?

CultureFormationEddie LaRow

Even in the Agony of Despondency

Lincoln was a great man and leader not despite his frequent melancholy, but because he kept going even under the weight of melancholy.

Calvin StapertCultureMusic

No Beauty Without Boundaries

Stravinsky rightly said that our freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly we limit our field of action and the more we surround ourselves with obstacles.

TechnologyFormationHayden NesbitMagnifica Humanitas

When Christoff Meets Pope Leo

The experience of resonance will not be manufactured by tech overlords.

Book ReviewsCharles Carman

Hospitality, Desecration, Politics: A Review of Carl Trueman's 'The Desecration of Man'

There are domains where disenchantment may be unfit for, perhaps even a distraction from, a far more pressing crisis than belief in the mysterious. We need more than one framework to diagnose the modern crisis.

TechnologyFamilyFormationIsaac DeValois

How My Family Uses Yoto to Teach Our Kids the Faith

Christian families will be greatly helped by this little device for its simple and convenient opportunity to help conduct catechesis.

TechnologyTheologyAmy MantravadiMagnifica Humanitas

The Challenge and the Hope of Magnifica Humanitas

The call for Christians is therefore to be like Nehemiah and his fellow countrymen rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. We must not be “passive spectators of social and cultural fractures, nor mere commentators on what is crumbling.”

Jake MeadorChurch

Organizational competence is a way of loving neighbor.

When people don't care about policy and procedure, institutions are unequipped to deal with radicals who undermine the institution's purity and peace.

Eddie LaRow

That Hideous Narcissism

All in all, the modern self is remarkably free and remarkably miserable. Liberated from limits and boundaries, we find we are not walking toward anything — only away from something.

Jackson GreerBook Reviews

Agatha Christie Is Still Worth Reading

Christie wrote intelligent and insightful novels that, as she knew it, are middlebrow. While not all Christie books are of the same quality, her famous novels rightfully earned their place as classics of the genre, and she is worth a closer reading.

Benjamin PetersonBook Reviews

Community, Character, and the Governance of the Social Commons: Sanctuaries of Order

So much seems to be going wrong in our society. There is so much dissent, there are so many acts of violence, and there is so much division about the