The Archive

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Brewer EberlyHealth & Medicine

Unsouling the Patient: Notre Dame's Lessons for Medicine

Doctors face constant difficulties in caring for their patients. But it helps if you recognize you're dealing with someone who has a soul.

Jonathan CioranCulturePolitical Theory

Iron Sky: Peter Thiel and the Rise of Gay Space Fascism

The most likely ideology to define the future of the American right is the anti-democratic technophilia of tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

Jake MeadorEvangelicalism

The Rise of the Right-Wing Exvangelical

The right exvangelicals are both an echo and a mirror of the older left exvangelicals.

Trevin WaxEducation

Reimagining Seminary as Neo-Monastic Cohorts

We need to find a model for seminary education that preserves in-person learning and spiritual formation as essential parts of the seminary experience.

Jake MeadorPolitical Theory

After Progressive Neo-Liberalism: What comes next?

The era of progressive neoliberalism seems well and truly over. What comes next could be better, but there are no guarantees.

E. J. HutchinsonCurrent EventsPoetry

Fire and Ice

A poetic warning about presuming to know the mind of God

Ross ByrdDeath

Against Cremation

The now ubiquitous practice of cremation suggests that something has broken in how the culture and even the church understands death and the body.

David MooreBooks

Ralph Wood on Flannery O'Connor and the Church

David Moore speaks with Ralph Wood about his latest book on Flannery O'Connor

Kirk WarehamFormation

Love Your (Actual) Neighbor

The command to love our neighbors begins with the actual neighbors with whom we share our local places.

Grant SutherlandBooks

"Called to Freedom"... but what does that mean?

Brad Littlejohn's new book is a helpful intervention in America's endless debates about what it means to be 'free.'

Luke SimonCurrent Events

Luigi Mangione, Lily Phillips, and Life in the Ruins

When people give up on the future, a spirit of destruction and then despair sets in.

Chris MartinTechnologyCurrent Politics

The Sins of TikTok Are Not Unique to TikTok

The argument for banning TikTok is clear enough. What is unclear is why those arguments don't apply to some American-owned apps.