Dear Readers, With this list, we enter a third decade of the “Best Books I Read…”, which is both difficult to comprehend and heart-warming to ponder. This yearly feature began with the simple belief that […]
Dear Readers, It seems fitting to introduce this 20th edition—yes, this has been a tradition for two decades now—of the “Best Books I Read…” with a quote from a book about books and reading: Our […]
Richard Clements, who has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University, is the author of The Meaning of the World Is Love: Selected Texts from Hans Urs von Balthasar with Commentary (Ignatius Press, 2022). […]
What is man? Carl Trueman argues that this is the most pressing question we face today. Paul Kingsnorth seems to agree; in his recently published book, Against the Machine, Kingsnorth asserts that “We have forgotten who we are, […]
Our increasingly permissive society does not uphold many moral standards anymore, but one of the few standards that our society at least claims to insist upon is the prohibition against hate. This hatred for hate […]
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-88) is considered by many to be the greatest theologian of the twentieth century. Balthasar is said to have been Saint John Paul II’s favorite theologian, and he was one of […]
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