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November 18, 2025

Lewis and Tolkien’s War Against Grimdark

If poetic serendipity is the language of the Holy Spirit, then perhaps nowhere is it more evident than in friendship. Friendship requires our cooperation, yes. We must choose it, and choose to remain in it. Continue Reading...

October 09, 2025

Taking Charles Murray Seriously

All happy conversion stories are alike. Every unhappy conversion story is unhappy in its own way. Is how Tolstoy might have put it, if he weren’t, you know, dead. Charles Murray, he of Bell Curve fame and attendant controversy, has gotten religion. Continue Reading...

June 13, 2025

Of Fathers and Friends

Every man needs a father and friends. Sadly, both seem to be in short supply these days. My own father is a great man. He’s not perfect, famous, educated, or wealthy. Continue Reading...

February 11, 2025

Reflecting the Mind of God in Mere Economics

“The fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Spanish Scholastics … correctly reasoned that God was not going to leave the social world a chaotic mess. They recognized a ‘humane science’ reflecting the mind of God while rendering the social world intelligible. Continue Reading...

April 02, 2024

Sigmund Freud, C.S. Lewis, and a Great Madness

Ambiguity is, in a neat mental onomatopoeia, a difficult word to define. But to begin to understand a piece of art like the film Freud’s Last Session, define it we must, and religious artists would do well to try to understand the film. Continue Reading...

March 26, 2024

When All Is Cultural, Nothing Is Natural

Thinkers from nearly every intellectual tradition agree that we live in an age when ideology dominates public life. Who or what we can accurately label as ideological is as essentially contested as the rest of politics. Continue Reading...

November 22, 2023

Lovers of Truth: C.S. Lewis and Elizabeth Anscombe

It was a night that would live in infamy. The great debater and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis was defeated by a woman—and a young Roman Catholic upstart philosopher at that. Except that’s not quite what happened. Continue Reading...

March 21, 2023

C.S. Lewis on the Specter of Totalitarianism

It is safe to say C.S. Lewis is not known first of all for his treatment of totalitarianism. We are familiar with Lewis the Christian apologist, Lewis the writer of children’s stories and science fiction fantasy, Lewis the literary critic and Oxford don, and then chair of medieval and renaissance literature at Cambridge. Continue Reading...

November 29, 2022

Lives of the Saint: C.S. Lewis on Stage and Screen

Sometimes it seems as though the only things that exercise modern souls are sex, scandal, and sin, but all around us, every day, there are indications that a not-insignificant portion of the population seeks something more. Continue Reading...

March 25, 2022

The Incarnation: The basis for a free and virtuous society

In the Genesis account of creation, we read that God “looked at all he had made and found it very good.” Today’s feast, which celebrates the Annunciation to Mary and the Incarnation of the Son of God, reminds us that no matter how fallen and foolish human nature may be, what God has made good remains good. Continue Reading...

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