Pharaohs Who Know Not Jesus

By |2024-03-08T18:59:32-06:00March 8th, 2024|Categories: Christendom, Christian Living, Christianity, Gospel Reflection, Lent, Timeless Essays|

As fallen human beings, we live with the threat of sin and temptation, and we can easily choose to follow these rather than Christ. Sins become the “pharaohs” in our lives—those thoughts, words, deeds, and omissions that are foreign to a life in Christ. Like the Pharaoh who knew not Joseph, these sins know not [...]

Thomas More on Conscience, Courage, & the Comedy of Politics

By |2024-02-06T18:00:46-06:00February 6th, 2024|Categories: Christendom, Christian Humanism, Civil Society, England, History, Natural Law, Philosophy, Politics, St. Thomas More, Timeless Essays, Wisdom|

As the gulf between classical and postmodern notions of conscience and government grows ever wider and their clashes more explosive, it is high time for the jury to give renewed attention to the nuances of Thomas More’s understanding of the apparently competing, but ultimately harmonious, demands of divine, natural, and human law. In August of [...]

Seeing Both Sides: St. Thomas Aquinas

By |2024-01-27T23:06:54-06:00January 27th, 2024|Categories: Christendom, Joseph Sobran, St. Thomas Aquinas, Timeless Essays|

St. Thomas Aquinas has the rare quality of wanting to know all that can be said for the other side. He understands that you can’t find good answers. Before I discovered Shakespeare, the writer I most admired was St. Thomas Aquinas. Dazzling as Shakespeare is, I think I was right the first time. Apples and [...]

The Best and Worst of Centuries

By |2023-11-23T00:27:07-06:00November 23rd, 2023|Categories: Christendom, History, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors|

Is there a century in human history which can claim to be better than all the others? Many, especially Catholics, might argue that the thirteenth century deserves such an accolade. According to Church historian, Alan Schreck, this was “the greatest century of spiritual, cultural, and intellectual advancement in the history of Western civilization”. It was [...]

The Great Banquet

By |2023-11-05T08:33:38-06:00November 4th, 2023|Categories: Books, Christendom, Religion, Theology|

Is there some legitimate historical prophecy to which we may turn? Christendom replies to this question with a clear Yes. Christendom, after all, counts among its sacred scriptures the prophetic Book of the Apocalypse. Hope and History, by Josef Pieper (106 pages, Cluny Media) Is there some legitimate historical prophecy to which we may turn? [...]

How Would Christopher Dawson Redeem the West?

By |2023-10-12T05:16:04-05:00October 11th, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Christendom, Christianity, Christopher Dawson, St. John Henry Newman, Timeless Essays, Western Civilization|

Christopher Dawson held that the Christian religion created a distinctive culture that not only preceded, but has continued long after, the thirteenth century. It is only by examining this cultural dynamism that one can appreciate why modern society is a mutilated, or a “secularized,” version of Christendom. Soren Kierkegaard observed that a distinguishing mark of [...]

The Legacy of St. John Henry Newman

By |2023-10-08T22:04:55-05:00October 8th, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Christendom, England, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, St. John Henry Newman|

Newman’s conversion in 1845, sixteen years after Catholic Emancipation and five years before the re-establishment of the Catholic hierarchy in England, heralded the birth of a Revival which would see the resurrection of the Faith in the English-speaking world. In September 2010, I was honoured to be invited to serve as an official commentator on [...]

St. Pius V and the Battle of Lepanto

By |2023-10-06T20:38:31-05:00October 6th, 2023|Categories: Books, Catholicism, Christendom, Europe, G.K. Chesterton, Islam, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays, War|

Pope Pius, who had done more than anyone to make the Christian victory at Lepanto possible, is said to have burst into tears when news of it reached him. They have dared the white republics up the capes of Italy, They have dashed the Adriatic round the Lion of the Sea, And the Pope has [...]

What Is Liberalism?

By |2023-08-19T09:06:54-05:00August 11th, 2023|Categories: Christendom, Christianity, Culture, Liberalism, New Polity, Politics|

While preceding generations have simply taken liberalism for granted as the given context within which we make practical judgments about many other things, the current generation seems willing to raise astonishingly bold questions regarding liberalism itself. Is it the only possible way to think about politics? Is it the “best regime”? Essential questions are “untimely” [...]

Return to Order: Organic Remedies and Upright Spontaneity

By |2023-07-20T17:19:04-05:00July 20th, 2023|Categories: Books, Christendom, Economics, John Horvat, Political Economy, Timeless Essays, Virtue|Tags: |

Counting upon God’s grace, we must recognize and respect the organic nature of man, full of vivacity, spontaneity, and unpredictability. This is the essence of a truly organic—that is, living—society. An element of organic society involves the manner in which remedies are found. In searching for solutions, we must carefully observe the fact that organic [...]

Christopher Dawson & the History We Are Not Told

By |2023-05-25T12:19:06-05:00May 24th, 2023|Categories: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Catholicism, Christendom, Christian Humanism, Christianity, Christopher Dawson, Culture, Featured, History, Timeless Essays|Tags: , |

Christopher Dawson radically revises our sense of the continuity of Western culture. For the ordinary educated consciousness, what happened in Western Europe after the collapse of the Roman order tends to be a blank page labelled “the dark ages.” But as Dawson makes clear, there were heroic continuities, an enormous effort on the part of [...]

On The Recovery of the Liberal Arts

By |2023-05-21T12:43:28-05:00May 21st, 2023|Categories: Bradley G. Green, Christendom, Liberal Arts, Liberal Learning, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

It just may be the case that the only real and meaningfully hope of the recovery of the liberal arts lies in the recovery of the gospel itself, and in the recovery of a Christian understanding of God, man, and the world—including a recovery of what education truly is. “One ought not grow old in [...]

Where Earth and Heaven Meet

By |2023-05-12T23:15:54-05:00May 12th, 2023|Categories: Catholicism, Christendom, Christianity, Dwight Longenecker, Poetry, Senior Contributors|

There are few places in the world where I would rather take a vacation than Tuscany. Here are the birthplaces not only of Giotto, Leonardo, and Michelangelo, but the city of Dante, the heartland of popes, princes, and presidents. A visit to this blessed land immerses one in the history, art, cuisine, and culture of [...]

The Divine Conspiracy of Dallas Willard

By |2023-10-08T19:27:03-05:00May 8th, 2023|Categories: Barbara J. Elliott, Bible, Books, Christendom, Christianity, Dallas Willard, Senior Contributors|

Authentic discipleship transforms all aspects of life, every day, at work, at home, in all relationships. My discipleship to Jesus is, within clearly definable limits, not a matter of what I do, but of how I do it. Dallas Willard One of the great oaks among us is fallen. Dallas Willard, who died [...]

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