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Live not by a false sense of persecution
Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies is a damning testament to a religion without vision.
by Benjamin J. Dueholm
Our practices keep our commitments alive
To resist the kind of society we don't want, we have to cultivate the kind we do.
by Stephanie Paulsell
The Babel story is about the dangers of uniformity
Forget the tower. The problem is that everyone "had the same words."
by Shai Held
When God is silent
Silence is both a historical film and a timeless commentary on power and persecution.
by Philip Jenkins
Fascism can't be stopped by fact-checking
Confronting Trump's political project
By Daniel José Camacho
Balancing political realism with an openness to grace is not easy. But Arendt and Kiess propose just such a balance, so that “politics becomes the art of being born.”