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Rebuild Penn Station!
Yes, it sounds like a pipe dream. Rebuild Penn Station? Why imagine that’s possible when New York…
Legal wins matter—but culture matters more
Good news today. The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal…
Clutch Your Pearls and Think of the Children
There was a time when virtue summoned manly images like that of The Iliad’s Prince Hector soothing…
Let Religious Freedom Ring
Update: In a 5-4 vote, the United States Supreme Court decided in Hobby Lobby’s favor. When Chuck…
Bowdoin Told Us To Go
For the past decade, my wife and I have been the volunteer advisors to the Bowdoin Christian…
How Churches Can Bridge the Marriage Divide
Earlier this month, W. Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project and a senior fellow at…
In Praise of Praise Music
Praise music gets no respect, even among Christians. It is not hard to figure out why the…
Uncluttering the House of the Mind
I thank Headmaster Crowe for that gracious introduction. And I thank Professor Owen Anderson of Arizona State…
Can Christian Music Be Real Rock and Roll?
The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane by Christopher Partridge Oxford, 2013, 368…
Will Catholics Comply?
Sometime soon, the Supreme Court will announce its decision in the Hobby Lobby case. Depending on how…
Time to Admit It: I Live in the Suburbs and Love It
I have to finally confess to myself: I live in a suburb. It has taken me a…
Smoky Sky
The skies are sick, a feverish, jaundiced gray,malodorous with foul effluviadissembling skyline and the light of day—crepuscular,…
The Father Cals
Or here’s a story. One time when I was an altar boy A missionary priest arrived at…
Growth
One who’d been my friendly Granwas now mostly barred from me,accomplishing her hard deathon that strange farm…
For City Kids and City Neighborhoods
It’s commencement season and tens of thousands of students are graduating from inner-city Catholic elementary schools. As…
