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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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The Essential Scalia is a comprehensive collection of originalist thought

September 30, 2020 Gregory J. Sullivan 4

With the nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the United States Supreme Court the indispensable interpretive methods of original understanding in construing the Constitution and textualism in reading statutes are precisely where they belong: […]

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The gods of pulp-horror: H.P. Lovecraft and his religion

September 27, 2020 David Pinault 9

Lovecraft and me, we go way back. Both from Providence, both fantasy writers. Growing up in Rhode Island, I liked the kinship. Granted, there were differences. He was world-famous; I was a scribbling unpublished wannabe. […]

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The See of Peter in a dark and troubled age

September 21, 2020 Timothy D. Lusch 5

Anyone who has experienced the miracle of modern dentistry mourns little the passing of the Middle Ages. But Modernity (the period from the Renaissance to sometime in the twentieth-century), even with extraordinary advances in medicine […]

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Below are some more great images from this week’s World Youth Day events (some shots from earlier in the week can be seen here). All images are from Catholic News Service.  

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