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The little known and often-surprising history of Catholic Confederates

December 3, 2020 Piers Shepherd 33

There exists a stereotypical image of the American South as a militantly Protestant and strongly anti-Catholic environment. Gracjan Kraszewski’s fascinating book Catholic Confederates: Faith and Duty in the Civil War South should do much to […]

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The story of the rise, triumph, and nightmare of the modern self

November 29, 2020 Deborah Savage, PhD 26

Anyone wondering if man is capable of reason need look no further than the self-evident fact that he desires to understand. Indeed, he is frustrated when understanding eludes him. In those moments, he experiences what […]

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New history of Catholics in the United States full of scholarship, insight, humor

November 25, 2020 Bradley J. Birzer 8

Dr. Kevin Starr (1940-2017) was an amazingly prolific, talented, and innovative historian. His books on California, especially the five-volume California Dream series, which he completed while he was California State Historian, remain models of true […]

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“Axe-grinding and message spoil what you make”: An interview with Marly Youmans

November 22, 2020 Carl E. Olson 2

Novelist, poet, and story-teller extraordinaire Marly Youmans, author of fifteen books, has been described as “the best-kept secret among contemporary American writers” and “a novelist and poet out of sync with the times but in […]

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Understanding and surviving a culture dominated by expressive individualism

November 15, 2020 Carl E. Olson 16

Carl R. Trueman (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College. A church historian and prolific Evangelical author (he is a member of The Orthodox Presbyterian Church), Trueman […]

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Robert Hugh Benson, literary converts, and the Church in a dystopian age

November 13, 2020 Joseph Pearce 4

In this interview with Jan Franczak for the Polish Journal, PCh24, biographer and literary critic Joseph Pearce discusses the importance of the convert writer, Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), as well as other great literary converts. […]

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New history of the Eastern Orthodox Church is often superb, sometimes lacking

November 12, 2020 Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille 4

John Anthony McGuckin is without doubt one of the world’s leading scholars of Eastern Christianity, patristics, and Church history. Having taught at Columbia and Union Seminary in New York City, he returned to his native […]

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2020’s Best-kept Literary Secret

November 9, 2020 Jane Greer 7

Charis in the World of Wonders is the novel of the year—and the odds are that you’ve never heard of it. Or, if you have, you’ve not yet read it. Every year, a hundred thousand […]

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Some People Did See It Coming

October 7, 2020 Chilton Williamson, Jr. 30

If only for the sake of accuracy and fairness, the first-person plural pronoun in the title of this book begs definition, since a good many people did see “it” coming over the last four decades. […]

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It can’t happen here: A review of Live Not By Lies

October 6, 2020 Francis X. Maier 40

In January 2017, three days before Barack Obama left the White House, the New York Times published an opinion piece entitled “Reading the Classic Novel That Predicted Trump.” Written by Beverly Gage, it spoke darkly […]

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