Family
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Concert
It offers many dividends: The opportunity to meet And chat with old and new-found friends; The amiable…
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Religious Liberty in America: Political Safeguards. By Louis Fisher. University Press of Kansas. 266 pp. $16.95 paper.…
Remembering Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich died in Bremen on December 2, 2002 at the age of seventy-six. As a German…
The Virtue of Hate
In his classic Holocaust text, The Sunflower, Simon Wiesenthal recounts the following experience. As a concentration camp prisoner,…
Life, Liberty, and the Defense of Human Dignity: The Challenge of Bioethics
Leon Kass has described himself as a strange man who writes strange and untimely books. Given the…
Debating the Human Future
human cloning and human dignity: the report of the president’s council on bioethics with a foreward by…
Another Islam
Beginning in the thirteenth century, the three monotheistic religions parted ways, with the Jewish and Christian world…
Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East
From the perspective of Israel and its (few remaining) friends, the Six Day War was—and remains—both just…
Ireland’s Holy Wars: The Struggle for a Nation’s Soul
In saying that Marcus Tanner’s Ireland’s Holy Wars is predictable I don’t want to give readers the…
Poetry
To age is but to respect gravity, movement that is denial given up in the fashion of…
The Passing of R. J. Rushdoony
Rousas John Rushdoony died on February 8 of this year, at the age of eighty“four. He was…
Poetry
My wife framed a poster decades ago, Take time ”picture of a daddy holding a kid. So…
Thinking Through Vatican II
History of Vatican II: The Mature Council-The Formation of the Council’s Identity – First Period and Intersession,…
The University Gets Religion: Religious Studies in American Higher Education
D. G. Hart teaches at Westminster Theological Seminary, an institution that serves the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, a…
The Book of Heaven: An Anthology of Writings from Ancient to Modern Times
Heaven is not simply a theological, literary, or artistic phenomenon. It is experiential: in moments of play,…
