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October 31, 2025

Dilexi Te and Loving the Poor

Pope Leo XIV’s first major proclamation, Dilexi Te (I Have Loved You), is an apostolic exhortation addressed “to all Christians” on caring for the poor. Pope Francis was preparing this exhortation when he died. Continue Reading...
October 30, 2025

From Her to Here: Can Tech Cure Loneliness?

Recently, Sam Altman announced that OpenAI is considering allowing more personal—and even erotic—content for adult users, which reignited a broader conversation about the future of artificial intelligence. This might remind you of Her, the 2013 film in which a lonely man falls in love with his operating system. Continue Reading...
October 28, 2025

Our Philo-Semitic History

To hold in one’s hands a book like Josh Hammer’s Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish State and the Destiny of the West is the kind of privilege that comes with residency in the civilized West. Continue Reading...
October 23, 2025

Aren’t Nobel Winners Supposed to Be Living?

We live in an amazing time. As David Kotter recently noted in The Washington Times, we have flipped “extreme global poverty” in just the past 250 years: When the USA was founded, roughly 90% of earth’s population lived in—by today’s standards—extreme poverty. Continue Reading...
October 20, 2025

The Nobel Peace Prize Against Socialism

This month, the Nobel Peace Prize committee in Norway awarded their famous award to a Venezuelan citizen for the first time: someone I know and whom we should all deeply respect, a freedom fighter with a deep belief in Christ—María Corina Machado. Continue Reading...
October 16, 2025

How the Church Once Governed

The prelapsarian order enjoys a diversity of interpretations in the modern imagination. For some, it represents a prosperous symbiotic relationship between an originally vegetarian human civilization and creation: “The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it” (Gen. Continue Reading...
October 15, 2025

Calvinist Critical Theory

God at Work: Loving God and Neighbor Through the Book of Exodus, a new book from Anthony Bradley, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute and professor of interdisciplinary and theological studies at Kuyper College, is not another contribution to the Faith and Work movement. Continue Reading...