Work, Part I: In Defense of Brass Polishing
“Six days shalt thou labour;” who would have thought that Protestants (with their acclaimed work ethic) needed reminding of that?…
“Six days shalt thou labour;” who would have thought that Protestants (with their acclaimed work ethic) needed reminding of that?…
South Canaan, Pa., is the monastic home of priestly life. It is a world apart, given for the world at…
This is the story of a year and a half of reading philosophy, culminated in a magisterial volume by David…
On “First Things:” American Evangelical Christians seem, at times, to be afflicted by neurosis. But it may not be such…
The undercover stings at Planned Parenthood facilities conducted by Live Action a few months back have produced an extended conversation…
Please see my opinion piece at Cardus, the parent of Comment Magazine. The article is about sex. Bryan WandelBryan Wandel…
Bryan Wandel A massive promontory juts out of Gibraltar, peering over the Straight that seeps into the Atlantic Ocean. This…
Bryan Wandel Many debates come down to hard questions. We can shed some light on these presuppositions by understanding that…
Bryan Wandel Joe Carter is asking today, Why isn’t the Natural Law more persuasive? Why don’t more people submit to the…
Bryan Wandel I had a great group of friends in middle school. Does that give me warrant to say God…
Anna Speckhard Richard M. Gamble, The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic…
Why does personal faith always look bad in films? Think about it: how many movie scenes have ever presented prayer,…
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig…
Sun-Tzu said: Know thyself, know thine enemy; a thousand battles, a thousand victories. Peter Kreeft apparently agrees with him. In…
Religion Dispatches reports on a Philosopher of Religion who has given up on philosophy of religion. “I just cannot take…
Okay, so they’re building a life-size Noah’s ark in Kentucky. Answers in Genesis is funding it after the huge success…
George Weigel, reflecting on the legacy of outgoing USCCB president Francis Cardinal George, puts forth a thought-provoking suggestion for one…
J.M. Bernstein has an interesting article on NYTimes Online Opinionator. Interesting, because G.W.F. Hegel is rarely discussed in a newspaper. Or…
Strictly psychologically, some very interesting stuff via Rod Dreher the other day. He summarizes some of the theory of Jonathan…
In Natural Right and History, Leo Strauss laid out his case against Max Weber. According to Strauss, Weber had thrown…