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37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
December 25, 508
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
Jingjiao: The Earliest Christian Church in China by Glen L. Thompson
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
on the Return of a Diabolical & Meaningless Project
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
November 23, 1654
37.6—Nov/Dec, 2024
The Church Culture That Made His Musical Genius Flourish
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
October 24, 1648
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
October 10, 732
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
The Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna
37.5—Sept/Oct, 2024
Darwin’s Bluff: The Mystery of the Book Darwin Never Finished by Robert F. Shedinger
37.3—May/June, 2024
The Dedication of Constantinople
May 11, 330
37.1—Jan/Feb, 2024
The Deliberate Demise of Augustine-Christian Marriage
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
on How Grendel's Kinsmen Became Santa's Helpers
36.6—Nov/Dec, 2023
On Finally Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
Notes Towards Overcoming Our Spiritual Blindness
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
Faithfulness in a Time of Trouble
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
A Brief Account of the Occult at the End of Western Civilization
36.5—Sept/Oct, 2023
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
36.4—Jul/Aug, 2023
A Tale Told in Music
36.3—May/Jun, 2023
The Lost Authority of Godly Men
36.2—Mar/Apr, 2023
A Positively Medieval Hierarchy
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
We Have No Right, Thank God
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
The Scandal of Holiness: Renewing Your Imagination in the Company of Literary Saints by Jessica Hooten Wilson
36.1—Jan/Feb, 2023
A History of the Protestant Debate over Contraception
35.5—Sept/Oct, 2022
Lessons from Early Christians . . . and from Our Great-Grandparents
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
Our Dear-Bought Liberty: Catholics and Religious Toleration in Early America by Michael D. Breidenbach
35.4—Jul/Aug, 2022
on the Constructive Piety of POWs on a Desolate Island
35.3—May/Jun, 2022
on the Untamed Tongue of a Medieval English Monk
35.2—Mar/Apr, 2022
An Ancient Festival's Enduring Lessons
35.1—January/February, 2022
on a Prayer for Hatred & the Final Solution
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
Letters of the St. Nicholas League
When Once 100,000 Children Wrote the Best Magazine That Ever Was
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
on Refusing a Pinch of Incense to Imperial Progressivism
34.6—Nov/Dec, 2021
An Appreciation of Centesimus Annus on Its 30th Anniversary
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
His Recent Voyage Off the Flat Earth of Revisionist Historians
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
on a Firsthand Encounter with Terror & Conversion
34.5—Sept/Oct, 2021
on Signs of Mercy & Judgment at the World Trade Center
34.3—May/June, 2021
Puritanism & the Ideological Founding of America
34.3—May/June, 2021
Liberalism & the Ancient Enemy of Our Children
34.2—March/April, 2021
Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Timely Search for a Christian Response to Nazism
34.2—March/April, 2021
A Christian Response to "The Case for Reparations"
34.2—March/April, 2021
on the Martyrdom of Franz Jäggerstätter
34.2—March/April, 2021
The Long Dark Tunnel of Resentment
34.2—March/April, 2021
The Rise of Judicial Secularism & the Loss of Religious Freedom
34.1—January/February, 2021
Remembering Chaplain Moody, Who Was Always There for His Men
34.1—January/February, 2021
34.1—January/February, 2021
33.6—Nov/Dec, 2020
on an Enduring Story of Sacrifice to Save Others
33.5—September/October, 2020
C. S. Lewis & the Insights of Medieval Cosmology
33.5—September/October, 2020
Constitutionalism Without Christian Humanism
33.5—September/October, 2020
A Personal Memoir of Russia's Orthodox Clergy & Elders Under Communism
33.4—July/August, 2020
Clear Out the Rubble & Rebuild!
33.4—July/August, 2020
Christ-Centered History Elevates Us All
33.4—July/August, 2020
on Boethius's Consolation in a Time of Plague
33.3—May/June, 2020
on James Murray's Brave Treatment of Quebec's Catholics
33.2—March/April, 2020
33.2—March/April, 2020
on Neta, Who Lived to Tell the Tale of Endurance
33.2—March/April, 2020
John the Baptist by Anton Raphael Mengs
33.2—March/April, 2020
Encounters with Faith & Forgiveness in Communities of Faith
33.1—January/February, 2020
Pagans & Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac by Steven D. Smith
33.1—January/February, 2020
Why Christian Platonism Is Key to the Great Tradition
33.1—January/February, 2020
on Taking Seriously Gravitas, Dignitas & Pietas
32.6—November/December, 2019
on a Romanian Cautionary Tale for Fallible Pastors
32.5—September/October, 2019
on the Limits of "Post-Colonialism"
32.4—July/August, 2019
Then They Came For Me: Martin Niemöller, The Pastor Who Defied the Nazis by Matthew D. Hockenos
32.3—May/June, 2019
32.2—March/April, 2019
32.2—March/April, 2019
32.2—March/April, 2019
Reality Shows, Even in a Popular TV Series
31.6—November/December, 2018
France's Reign of Terror & the Witness of the Church Militant
31.5—September/October, 2018
The Rise of the Gnostic Liberal State After Christianity
31.5—September/October, 2018
31.5—September/October, 2018
The Cities of Man & the Dwelling Place of the Lord
31.5—September/October, 2018
Errands into the Moral Wilderness
Forms of Christian Family Witness & Renewal
31.4—July/August, 2018
Places of Worship on the Road to Iron Nation
31.3—May/June, 2018
The Riddle of Nietzsche's Philosemitic Anti-Judaism
31.3—May/June, 2018
31.1—January/February, 2018
on Ragnarök, an Extreme Weather Event & the Paths to Conversion
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
The Thousand-Year Gap in Nietzsche's Education & Our Modern Sickness
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Bearing False Witness: Debunking Centuries of Anti-Catholic History by Rodney Stark
30.6—Nov/Dec, 2017
Hitler's Religion: The Twisted Beliefs That Drove the Third Reich by Richard Weikart
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
The Critical History Before, During & After Martin Luther
30.5—Sept/Oct, 2017
30.2—March/April, 2017
on Pacifism Today & in the Early Church
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
Missionaries of Republicanism: A Religious History of the Mexican-American War by John C. Pinheiro
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
The Intersections of Christ, Creed & Culture
30.1—Jan/Feb, 2017
The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution by David Wootton
29.6—Nov/Dec, 2016
Before Religion: A History of a Modern Concept by Brent Nongbri
29.4—July/August, 2016
A History of Religious Freedom
29.4—July/August, 2016
A Review of Stacy Schiff's The Witches: Salem, 1692
29.2—March/April, 2016
The History of Family Strength in America May Reveal Good News
28.6—Nov/Dec, 2015
The Evangelization of Society Can Benefit from the Spiritual Vision of Christopher Dawson
28.5—Sept/Oct, 2015
Remembering Angka & the Idolatry of the Khmer Rouge 40 Years Later
28.3—May/June, 2015
Whittaker Chambers's Lonely War Against Godless Collectivism
27.4—July/August, 2014
on Robert W. Fogel & the Christian Legacy on Slavery
27.4—July/August, 2014
The Measure of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Christian Faith
27.3—May/June, 2014
on a Lost World & Our Alien Nation
27.3—May/June, 2014
Why Study History? Reflecting on the Importance of the Past by John Fea
26.3—May/June, 2013
The Legacy of the Mission of Cyril & Methodius 1,150 Years Later
26.2—Mar/Apr, 2013
General George C. Marshall's Core Convictions & Ethical Leadership
26.2—Mar/Apr, 2013
The History & Revelation of Anamnesis in Platonic, Jewish & Christian Thought
26.1—Jan/Feb, 2013
Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World
by Jay Nordlinger
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
on the Tyranny of Modern Freedom versus the Freedom of Jesus
24.6—Nov/Dec, 2011
A. J. Conyers's The Long Truce: How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit
24.3—May/June, 2011
on Christian Courtship & the Awkward Question of Sexual History
24.3—May/June, 2011
The Bible in English: Its History and Influence by David Daniell
24.1—January/February, 2011
How Planned Parenthood's Founder Played the Christians, and Won
23.5—September/October, 2010
An Interview with Michael Nazir-Ali
23.2—March/April, 2010
On the Origins of the Primary Feast of the Christian Church
22.8—November/December, 2009
The Plain Man’s Pathways to Heaven: Kinds of Christianity in Post-Reformation
England
by Christopher Haigh
22.5—June, 2009
Keepers of the Keys of Heaven: A History of the Papacy by Roger Collins
22.5—June, 2009
The Life & Times of Anthony Comstock, Moral Crusader
22.3—April, 2009
The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea by Rémi Brague
21.10—December, 2008
Early Christian Teaching on the Incarnation & Redemption
21.10—December, 2008
Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs
21.6—July/August, 2008
Benedict XVI on the Crisis of Faith & Reason
21.6—July/August, 2008
The Perils of Providential History
20.10—December, 2007
on the Family History a Winter Festival Doesn’t Tell
20.9—November, 2007
A Concise History of Euthanasia
by Ian Dowbiggin
The Modern Art of Dying
by Shai Lavi
The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
by Neil Gorsuch
20.9—November, 2007
The Patriot Loves His Land Because It Is a Shadow
20.9—November, 2007
The Critical Lessons for Christians in the Long Shadow of 1453
20.9—November, 2007
My Correct Views on Everything
by Leszek Kolakowski
20.8—October, 2007
The Christian Catacombs of Rome: History, Decoration, Inscriptions by Vincenzo Fiocchi Nicolai, Fabrizio Bisconti,
20.6—July/August, 2007
The Beowulf Poet Was a Shrewd Christian Apologist
20.3—April, 2007
The Evidences of Nestorian Christianity in Ancient China
20.2—March, 2007
on the Foolproof Test for Paganism
20.1—January/February, 2007
Dispelling the Myths of
Abortion History
by Joseph W. Dellapenna
19.10—December, 2006
Workers of Another World United
A Personal Commemoration of Poland’s Solidarity 25 Years Later
19.9—November, 2006
on What the First Commandment Has to Do with the Fourth of July
19.8—October, 2006
on Transgressive Bohemians as Regressive Bobos
19.3—April, 2006
Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages
by Jaroslav Pelikan
19.1—January/February, 2006
Six Lessons from History About the Future of Marriage & Family in the United States
18.10—December, 2005
The Author of the 250-Year-Old Dictionary Was a True Man of the Word
18.9—November, 2005
Cherishing the America We Were Not Made For
18.5—June, 2005
on History’s Greatest Force for Liberty & Justice
18.2—March, 2005
On Conservatism as Vexation, Vanity & Near Impossibility
14.1—January/February, 2001
14.3—April, 2001
A History of Johnson’s Wedge
14.4—May, 2001
on the Errors of Determinism
14.6—July/August, 2001
The Transformed Relics of the Fall
on the Fulfillment of History in Christ
15.3—April, 2002
Christianity and European Culture
edited by Gerald J. Russello
Dynamics of World History
by Christopher Dawson
15.6—July/August, 2002
Things Hidden Since the Beginning of the World
The Shape of Divine Providence & Human History
13.1—January/February, 2000
A Double Take on Early Christianity
An Interview with Rodney Stark
17.3—April, 2004
When the World Sets the Agenda for the Church
16.6—July/August, 2003
on Alexander Solzhenitsyn
16.6—July/August, 2003
on Christianity & Anti-Semitism
14.9—November, 2001
Lincoln's Historic Proclamation Appointing a National Day of Prayer & Fasting—A Sidebar to "The Essence & Power of Evil"
12.6—November/December, 1999
History of Vatican II
edited by Giuseppe Alberigo
Milestones: Memoirs 1927?1977
by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
12.2—March/April, 1999
Sitting Still with Christopher Dawson
Eternity in Time:
Christopher Dawson and the
Catholic Idea of History
edited by Stratford Caldecott
and John Morril
9.3—Summer, 1996
An Excerpt from The Empty Church: The Suicide of Liberal Christianity
1.3—Summer, 1987
A Historian and His World: A Life of Christopher Dawson, 1889–1970 by Christina Scott
1.2—Winter, 1987
The Mystery of Continuity: Time and History, Memory and Eternity in the Thought of Saint Augustine
more from the online archives
11.5—September/October 1998
Speaking the Truths Only the Imagination May Grasp
An Essay on Myth & 'Real Life' by Stratford Caldecott
23.1—January/February 2010
It’s Bent on Bringing Down the House on the Family & the Church by Douglas Farrow
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