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Agnes HowardBooksFamilySummer 2026Journal

Constructing a Common Good

My confidence about families in the future is fueled not so much by political reform or the normalizing of gender-neutral chore spreadsheets, but because I have seen so many astonishing young people who understand themselves as making together the life they value together.

Joshua HeavinTheologyFormationSummer 2026Journal

What is Union with Christ?

Union with Christ is not the kind of thing one grasps and then moves on from; it is an infinite, inexhaustible well that is the key to the whole of the Christian life.

JournalSummer 2026CultureEducationBrian Auten

Being a Public School Kid

There was nothing remotely directly or indirectly “woke” or “leftist” about Mrs. Higuchi’s public school classroom. There was no “indoctrination.” It wasn’t about empathy or sympathy. Instead, it was something much more classically humanist — perhaps even personalist. She taught love.

Paul J. PastorPoetryJournalWinter 2026

Of Holy Indolence, the End of All Life

To open our hands and not ask why is sometimes one of the best things we can do.

Lucy S. R. AustenBooksJournalWinter 2026

Man and Machine

The history of the book shows us that human frailty and cruelty have led to horrors, and that human goodness and strength have created powerful change for the better.

Matthew LoftusBooksJournalWinter 2026

Deconstructing Pessimism

We should find hope in the fact that it is actually quite difficult to truly embrace pessimism

Nathaniel MarshallBooksFormationJournalWinter 2026

To Dabble or Not to Dabble

Amateurism is wonderful, but asking it to serve as a subversion of capitalism and hustle culture is to misunderstand what it is.

William TateBooksJournalWinter 2026

Attending to 'Paradise Lost'

Alan Jacobs's biography of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' will help new readers understand and appreciate the immensity of Milton's poem.

Kirsten SandersCultureChurchBooksJournalWinter 2026

The Sacred and the Profane

If you experience many longings and intuitions that are traditionally answered by religion, why not be religious? Paul Elie's book attempts an answer.

Gracy OlmsteadChurchBooksFormationJournalWinter 2026

The Garden and the Liturgy

Both the church calendar and the work of gardening are reminders of our mortality and an exhortation to prepare for the world to come.

Christopher GehrzBooksJournalWinter 2026

Christians in the Age of Hitler

What happens to civic society as the norms that shaped 'the age of Hitler' erode and vanish?

Daniel K. WilliamsBooksJournalWinter 2026

Adding Up the Evidence for God: A Social Scientist’s Journey through Apologetics

Charles Murray's engagement with the Christian faith shows the power and the limits of a certain sort of apologetic.