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May 01, 2025

The Silence of God in Our Suffering

In his new book, Where Is God in a World with So Much Evil?, Collin Hansen, vice president for content and editor-in-chief for The Gospel Coalition and executive director of the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics, takes on one of the most challenging apologetic issues: the problem of evil. Continue Reading...
April 30, 2025

Feminists Against the Sexual Revolution

Late modernity has inherited a revolutionary spirit, and sex is the easiest place to see that spirit and its costs. The harms of the Sexual Revolution are rampant: Dating culture has collapsed; hookup culture is unsatisfying; the decline in marriage and birth rates have become a rallying cry for policymakers and conservatives alike. Continue Reading...
April 24, 2025

At Home in the Greatest Show

In the early 20th century, my north Jersey hometown was briefly the winter headquarters of the Ringling Bros’ circus, a fact that added no small amount of color to the local lore. Continue Reading...
April 16, 2025

Live Not by Lies Is More than a Movie

Angel Studios is a rare enterprise in American film, trying to put together popularity, prestige, Christianity, and new media. They had a major hit with Sound of Freedom (2023), then aimed for the Oscars with Bonhoeffer (2024). Continue Reading...
April 01, 2025

What Is War Good For?

It’s a common belief today that all war is evil. This is especially true in the wake of the confusing quagmires that have come to characterize warfare in the 21st century: Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Ukraine. Continue Reading...
March 26, 2025

Severance and the Bifurcated Self

One of the topics of the times is work-life balance. Should you work all the time, like Elon Musk? Should you embrace the workless life of social media influencers? To be middle class is a mix of the two. Continue Reading...
March 06, 2025

We Are All Makers

There’s a particular pleasure in reading books about making. Business books are “maker” books, in a sense. So are self-help books. The best of these “maker” books are the ones with lots of anecdotes, where we get to see the principles at work. Continue Reading...