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October 23, 2025

Aren’t Nobel Winners Supposed to Be Living?

We live in an amazing time. As David Kotter recently noted in The Washington Times, we have flipped “extreme global poverty” in just the past 250 years: When the USA was founded, roughly 90% of earth’s population lived in—by today’s standards—extreme poverty. Continue Reading...
October 20, 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize Against Socialism

This month, the Nobel Peace Prize committee in Norway awarded their famous award to a Venezuelan citizen for the first time: someone I know and whom we should all deeply respect, a freedom fighter with a deep belief in Christ—María Corina Machado. Continue Reading...
October 16, 2025

How the Church Once Governed

The prelapsarian order enjoys a diversity of interpretations in the modern imagination. For some, it represents a prosperous symbiotic relationship between an originally vegetarian human civilization and creation: “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it” (Gen. Continue Reading...
October 15, 2025

Calvinist Critical Theory

God at Work: Loving God and Neighbor Through the Book of Exodus, a new book from Anthony Bradley, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute and professor of interdisciplinary and theological studies at Kuyper College, is not another contribution to the Faith and Work movement. Continue Reading...
October 14, 2025

Man, Not Ape

What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. 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...
October 08, 2025

21 Books for the 21st Century

October, National Book Month, is a time for “best book” recommendation lists. I have a hard time being objective about the highly subjective experience of reading, so here’s my personal list not of “the best” but of titles that educated me. Continue Reading...