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Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty by ephraim radner baker academic, 280 pages, $36.99  Continue Reading »

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Almost everyone agrees that rates of transgender identification are skyrocketing , especially among young girls . But nobody seems to agree on the cause.  Continue Reading »

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When the always well-written and often wrongheaded New Yorker dislikes something, chances are good that I’ll like it—a principle that holds, with certain reservations, in the case of Dignita...

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A quote from a Dorothy L. Sayers novel has lately been on my mind. “I was a scholar once,” says an acquaintance of Harriet Vane, the highly successful protagonist of the novel, at a universit...

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The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom by larry loftis william morrow, 384 pages, $16.49  Continue Reading »

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Two recent books cry out to be reviewed together: Nadya Williams’s Cultural Christians in the Early Church: A Historical and Practical Introduction to Christians in the Greco-Roman World ; and...

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On September 10, 2023, Pope Francis beatified Józef and Wiktoria Ulma, along with their seven children. The entire family was executed by the Germans on March 24, 1944; their crime was hiding a ...

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I recently revisited a book that I had not read for many years: Robert P. Ericksen’s Theologians Under Hitler . It is a study of how three intellectuals, Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Eman...

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In Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week , Pope Benedict XVI remarked on the striking parallel between the presence of the holy women at the cross of Christ and their role in the first appearances of the...

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What exactly is a liberal education, and why is it important? Many see higher education as a gateway to a successful life, and, more particularly, to a successful career. A college education is a...

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