Tradition and a Tree By Timothy P. O’Malley One of the great gifts of homeschooling — which our family began to practice during the pandemic — is time. We have time to wake up in the morning rather than rush out the door. We hav... Read More...
Sacrament of Maturity By Sam Keyes Of all the sacraments, confirmation is the most widely misunderstood. Among Protestants, it often functions, at worst, as a mere coming-of-age ritual. At best, it gets described as something hav... Read More...
Church as Family By Neil Dhingra Should we think of the church as a family? Tolstoy famously wrote, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way,” and the line also seems to apply to the ch... Read More...
Not Ashamed at the Gates By Sam Keyes Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, * even so are the young children. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them; * they shall not be ashamed when they speak with the... Read More...
The Virtues of Professional Wrestling By Neil Dhingra In terms of book-length philosophical studies of professional wrestling, Douglas Edwards’s thoroughly enjoyable Philosophy Smackdown (2020) claims to be “the first of its kind,” which makes m... Read More...
Historical Criticism is not an Operating System By Ryan Pollock I completed my undergraduate degree at a small college of the Southern Baptist Convention in Texas. This college prides itself on forming future pastors in the spirit of the so-called Conserv... Read More...
Gift of God, or Invention of the Antichrist? Church of the Ever Greater God: The Ecclesiology of Erich Pryzwara By Aaron Pidel Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2020, pp. 324, $60. Review by Shaun Blanchard Fr. Aaron Pidel’s monograp... Read More...
Stabat Mater Dolorosa: The Blessed Virgin at the Foot of the Cross By Neil Dhingra Behold your son … Behold your mother. — John 19:25 We do not know where St. Mary has been, at least not since the miracle of Cana, after which Jesus had gone down to Capernaum with his fam... Read More...
