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Modern America worships at the altar of youth and eagerly tracks in polls and market research its latest and lightest velleities. Our present preoccupation with youth, of course, stands in sharp ...

I recently lectured in Rome on the topic of the Antichrist. The Antichrist interests me for several reasons, mostly because nobody else is talking about it—which, for most of Christian history, would ...

The Synod of Bishops is currently congregating in Rome for a four-week meeting of the Synod on Synodality. A second session will follow in October 2024. The theme of “synodality” is a notion ...

During the fall semester of 2013, I began to teach a new course here at Yale: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition. Even though the course had no track record (and therefore no student evaluations), ...

What happened to wokeness? This is one of the most insistent questions in political commentary today. Do Donald Trump’s reelection and the much ballyhooed “vibe shift” mean that wokeness is gone for ...

If Ernest Hemingway were to interview American mainline Protestantism in 2025, the conversation would go something like this: “How did you go spiritually bankrupt?” “Two ways. Gradually and then ...

The “United” in “United Methodist Church” (UMC) has always been aspirational. The UMC was founded in 1968, when the Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren Churches joined forces, marking the apex ...

A nation that cannot control its borders is not a nation. That statement should not be controversial for Catholics. It is not a partisan slogan; it is a basic moral premise of political community. And ...

There have been many books written about the online right and the Trump movement, most by people who are, to put it mildly, critical of them. This book is different. The term alt-right has been ...

The following essay is adapted from Brad Wilcox’s just-released book Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization. A Sociologist of Religion on ...

Let anyone who has an ear listen to what the Spirit is saying to the churches” (Rev. 2:11). This passage from Scripture is frequently quoted to justify a so-called “synodal Church,” a concept that at ...