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Jeff BilbroCultureBook ReviewsFormationJournalSpring 2025

A Love for Reading and Reading for Love

Understanding the unhealthy ways people have sometimes approached reading can help us better understand the technological temptations of our moments.

Charlie ClarkCultureBook ReviewsGlobal

The Romance of Realism

Williamson Murray's history of modern warfare raises the uncomfortable question of whether there even is such a thing as 'just war' anymore.

Michael LuccheseCultureJournalSpring 2025

John Quincy Adams Amongst the Postliberals

John Quincy Adams offers a compelling example of how to preserve a civic liberalism in the face of severe religious critique of its failings.

Derek RishmawyCultureChurch

How to Disagree Well

Sharp disputes in the life of any church won't be solved by emoting or catastrophizing, but only by making arguments and maintaining strong trust.

Nadya WilliamsCultureBook Reviews

Mahmoud v. Taylor, Winnie the Pooh, and Why Children in Public Schools Deserve Beautiful Books

A question lingers behind the Mahmoud v Taylor decision: Why is today's children's literature so bad? And why do we keep giving bad books to kids?

Noah DiekemperCultureGlobal

Rising Anti-Semitism: Notes on a Debunked Conspiracy

An episode of the Candace Owens show arguing for a conspiratorial account of the attack on the USS Liberty is filled with inaccuracies and misdirection.

Jim WildemanCulture

An American Dream

The story of one family of Cambodian refugees offers a hopeful glimpse into what immigration can be in America.

Matt PrechterCultureGlobal

Sacralizing Violence: A Reply to Gerald McDermott

If we are to be truly Christian in our account of the tragedy unfolding in Gaza and elsewhere then we cannot allow politics to blind us to what is real.

Nadya WilliamsCultureGlobal

Humanity in Wartime

One of the first things we lose in wartime is our humanity. This is something we have known for centuries, and yet still we so easily forget it.

Thomas Sieberhagen, Brewer Eberly, and Josh WeirCultureTechnologyFormation

In Defense of Playlists

The work of curating playlists to share amongst friends can actually be a way of resisting the tendency of our day to reduce music to mere ambient noise.

Thomas Fickley and Fr. Mark PerkinsCultureFormation

Common Arts That Matter

A liberal arts education that neglects the common arts does a grave disservice to its students.

Scott CunninghamCultureBook Reviews

Agonistic Democracy

What prospects are there for democracy when society turns toward agonism? That is the troubling question James Davison Hunter considers in his latest book.