By Dwight Longenecker on Nov 16, 2019 09:01 pm
Rusty Reno’s recent book, Return of the Strong Gods is an excellent explanation of the roots of relativism. The short version is that two world wars left Western civilization with a huge societal case of post-traumatic stress disorder. With heads in hands, the thinkers concluded that we kill one another because of dogma. We say, ...
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By James Kalb on Dec 10, 2019 05:06 pm
Many people today, especially conservatives and Christians, find it alarming that basic human connections and loyalties keep weakening in favor of impersonal economic and administrative arrangements. The tendency has been going on for a long [...]
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By Joseph Pearce on Nov 16, 2019 09:00 pm
Books are liberating. Not all books, to be sure. Not the sort of books that are as bad as the fads they serve, the sort of books in which vanity vanquishes verity, and in which the passion for fashion crucifies truth. Not the sort of books that turn their readers into prisoners of the ...
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by Nayeli RianoGlobalization has become an ineluctable reality. Technocrats and cosmopolitan politicians are abetting globalization for political influence, economic gain, and utopian delusion. We might add another incentive: A forgotten or deliberately ignored reverence for civic life. Might a hyper-focus on global advancement be contributing to a growing state of national anomie in liberal democracies worldwide? [MORE]
by Bradley J. BirzerJ.R.R. Tolkien believed that the Anglo-Saxon world might offer us strength to redeem Christendom. The hero of The Lord of the Rings, after all, is an Anglo-Saxon farmer turned citizen-warrior. The myth became one of universal—rather than national—significance and import. The Christian should embrace and sanctify the most noble virtues to come out of the northern pagan mind: courage and raw will... [MORE]
by Eva Brann
If it is the case that time never makes its appearance out in the world but only motion is in evidence, then either time is not or it is in the only other venue of which I can think, inside our soul—to be internally imagined rather than externally projected. When physical time has been shown to lack all physical evidence and therefore to be scientifically void, it might still be theologically real... [MORE]
Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.
“Having trivialized the past by equating it with outmoded . . . fashions and attitudes, people today resent anyone who draws on the past in serious discussions of contemporary conditions or attempts to use the past as a standard by which to judge the present… A denial of the past, superficially progressive and optimistic, proves […]