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Catholic convert Jerry Salyer is a philosophy instructor and freelance writer.
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George Orwell’s enduring explanation of the neopagan temptation

December 15, 2025 Jerry Salyer 8

Thanks partly to the obvious insanity of the left, especially under the Biden administration, what I once called the “Antichrist Right” back in 2010 has become surprisingly mainstream. Young people—especially young men—are far more open to […]

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Augustine of Hippo: A Saint for the 21st century

August 28, 2025 Jerry Salyer 25

Thanks to the myth of there being a perpetual war between science and religion, even broad-minded unbelievers are liable to think the faithful are trying to effect damage control when we emphasize that the Bible […]

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“What are we living for?” Solzhenitsyn and the true purpose of freedom

August 4, 2025 Jerry Salyer 14

“Let us admit, even if in a whisper, and only to ourselves: in this bustle of life at breakneck speed – what are we living for?” – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, “We Have Ceased to See the […]

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Slipping Scripture past the modern cultural dragons

July 2, 2025 Jerry Salyer 5

Reflecting upon the post-Christian West’s bias against Christianity, G. K. Chesterton once suggested that his modern-minded countrymen regard the Twelve Apostles “as Chinamen, and judge them fairly as Chinamen,” and think of the Gospel “as […]

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Gazing on—and beyond—the universe with Fr. Robert Spiitzer, SJ

June 2, 2025 Jerry Salyer 4

“In studying how the world works, we are studying how God works, and thereby learning what God is. In that spirit we can interpret the search for knowledge as a form of worship, and our […]

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There is so much we can—and do—know about Jesus, Mary, and miracles

January 8, 2025 Jerry Salyer 6

Fr. Robert Spitzer, S.J., observes in Christ, Science, and Reason that the refutation of those who have denied Jesus’ existence as a historical person may be summed up in a single word: Tacitus. This first-century […]

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Anthology presents “old tradition” of paleoconservatism to a new audience

November 6, 2024 Jerry Salyer 3

“The most obvious candidate for worst decision by the [Supreme] Court is Roe v. Wade,” remarks Stephen Presser in his contribution to A Paleoconservative Anthology: New Voices for an Old Tradition. Obvious indeed, yet according […]

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Regaining a Catholic vision of education in a secular age

August 18, 2024 Jerry Salyer 12

It has been persuasively argued that American education is subject to an “Unholy Alliance.” One wing of this alliance comprises leftist radicals, heirs of the 1960s, who promote sexual experimentation; the other wing is made […]

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Wisdom from a prime minister of China who became a Benedictine monk

June 24, 2024 Jerry Salyer 3

“The ordinance of heaven is termed the natural law; the principle which directs us to conform our actions to the natural law is called the rule of moral conduct; or the right path; the organized […]

Books

Fr. Spitzer’s new book exposes common secular fallacies about faith and science

January 23, 2024 Jerry Salyer 31

“The idea of a universal Mind, or Logos, would be, I think, a fairly plausible inference from the present state of theory.”– Sir Arthur Eddington Years ago, I taught a high school history of science […]

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