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CultureKeith Page

The Fifteen Foot Skeleton Key

Our current shift is explained less by big trends and more by fifteen-foot inflatable ghosts. We are witnessing an inversion of civil religion.

Elizabeth SticeCultureEducation

Hiding in Plain Sight: the Potential of Christian Higher Education

While others seek to establish schools and centers for what they value, we have existing centers for Christian thought. We should support them as eagerly as today’s founders of centers for civic thought support theirs.

BooksCultureE. Wesley Reynolds, III

Russell Kirk’s Understanding of a Christian America

Kirk reinvigorates the spirit of America by giving us a way of life; or rather by reminding us of the way of life which we have been historically given by a sovereign and almighty Providence.

Film Reviews/HollywoodCultureJohn Matthews

The Trojan Horse in Nolan’s Odyssey: Christianity Hidden in Zeus’s Law

Nolan's conception of "Zeus's Law" is not something he took from the Greeks or that ancient Greeks would recognize. It is, rather, a deeply Christian idea.

BibleTechnologyCultureCorey Hastings

Exercising Dominion After Generative Artificial Intelligence

Generative artificial intelligence can sometimes seem to mimic the uniquely human work of exercising dominion over creation.

CultureJake Meador

You Cannot Escape First Principles: The Right-Wing Leninism of National Conservatism

National conservatism reduces politics down to little more than "who, whom?" which was a Leninist idea before it was a dissident right idea.

CultureFormationMatthew Loftus

Aldous Huxley’s Delicious Moral Treats Emporium

If people keep stoking the fires of moral outrage, we are likely to see more murders like Brian Thompson’s before the close of the decade.

Eddie LaRowCulture

Lincoln's Constitutionalism

If anyone would be, surely Lincoln could be justified in thinking our constitutional order had failed. But he did not. Instead, he responded to national crisis by doubling down on the Constitution.

CultureJohn ReasnorFormation

Alypius, Public Executions, and the Formation of Souls

To view death as entertainment or spectacle harms our soul even more than the act of execution harms the inmate's body.

BooksCultureDaniel Bennett

We Need More Religion in Public Life, Not Less

Kaemingk and Hamid believe our democratic order may be revived just yet, starting with more religion, not less.

CultureChurchSarah Rexford

'What Is the Meaning of Christian In This American Life?'

Stepping out of the modern church taught me more about Jesus than anything I learned inside it.

FamilyCultureChristine AgarwalFormation

Children of the Wasted Lands

Listen carefully to the stories being told to you, and choose wisely which ones to listen to.