Without quite knowing it, I had begun to rely on the tradition of the Roman Catholic Church.
Elizabeth Bruenig
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Augustine gets a makeover in new translation. He hardly needed it.
Instead of the fusty old churchman we all know, Sarah Ruden’s Augustine is a dreamer, an artist, a poet.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What Trump conservatives and refugees both want: a place to call home
The attraction of Trump’s brand of conservatism is that it recognizes the meaning in place, patriotism and culture.
Posted inOpinion, Politics & Society
The politics of abortion will get more complicated in 2017
Activists do not yet seem to have developed plans for engaging voters on the opposing side.
Posted inFaith, Features
Marketing Motherhood: The meaning of vocation in a secular world
The word vocation, originally used to indicate lives directly consecrated to God through priestly or religious service, has recently come into use in a much broader fashion. To expand vocation to include the whole range of ways that lives can be given to God is a fair and sensible extension. After a
Posted inFeatures, Politics & Society
Our Bleeding Hearts: Seeking more mercy from the media
During my year in the United Kingdom I kept up obsessively with news of home. It is not a habit that is encouraged among students abroad, but I expected with the sort of headlines I followed I would not be missing much. How is it possible, I then reasoned, to read about controversial or troubling ev