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About Casey Chalk
Casey Chalk is a contributor for Crisis Magazine, The American Conservative, and New Oxford Review. He has degrees in history and teaching from the University of Virginia and a master's in theology from Christendom College.
The Dispatch

The dangers of the political religious choice

August 10, 2026 Casey Chalk 23

In June, the writer, producer, and nonprofit founder Ashley L. Jackson converted to Judaism. That fact itself is somewhat unusual, as only somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 Americans convert to the Jewish faith every year. […]

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The digital age primed us to exploit and to be exploited

July 7, 2026 Casey Chalk 1

From the inception of the Internet, we’ve known that there is a distance between who we are as embodied souls struggling through a fallen world and who we present to be on the Internet, even […]

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A profound reflection on suffering and moving account of conversion

May 28, 2026 Casey Chalk 4

My father was a physical therapist. His funeral was well attended, with several hundred people, including a significant percentage of whom I had never met, his patients over thirty-five years practicing in our native northern […]

Books

A new history of the unrecognized martyrs of the Christian militia orders

April 26, 2026 Casey Chalk 10

When it comes to saints who were also soldiers, the list is relatively short. There is St. Louis IX, the medieval king of France, who fundraised and led two crusades against the Muslim kingdom in […]

Books

Silence of the Gods chronicles the obscure paganism of eastern Europe

March 6, 2026 Casey Chalk 6

In the secular recounting of the history of the West, it is commonly asserted that Christianity held a many-centuries-long dominance over the peoples of Europe, stifling (supposedly) intellectual and moral development because of its superstitious […]

Books

What It Means To Be Protestant is mostly about not being Catholic

December 29, 2025 Casey Chalk 101

What is Protestantism? It seems a straightforward thing to answer. Protestantism is the affirmation of Scripture as the ultimate, unparalleled authority of Christian faith and practice. Protestantism is the “five solae” of the sixteenth-century Reformation: Sola Scriptura, Solus […]

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In praise of “the writer of the Spanish empire”

December 20, 2025 Casey Chalk 3

Five hundred years ago this year, a twenty-one-year-old Spaniard made his religious profession as a member of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans. That man, now called Venerable Louis of Granada, though little known now, […]

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A timely and helpful introduction to St. Dominic’s life and mission

November 7, 2025 Casey Chalk 5

According to a 2016 directory published by Fr. José A. Martinez, the Dominicans can claim 83 canonized saints, 287 blessed, 25 venerable, and 119 servants of God in the liturgical calendar or in the files […]

Analysis

Catholicism and Israel: Perspective and insight from a Dominican theologian

October 14, 2025 Casey Chalk 53

Although Israel is not central to Principles of Catholic Theology: Book 4, On the Church, Mary, Nature and Grace, a new collection of essays by prominent theologian Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP, the book offers two […]

Books

Le Fort’s novel about the Thirty Years’ War resonates amid contemporary tensions

August 16, 2025 Casey Chalk 7

Recently, I was directed to an article by conservative Evangelical author and activist Katy Faust entitled “No Time for Friendly Fire: Why Catholics and Evangelicals Need Each Other Now More Than Ever.” I confess that […]

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