Last month marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the failed bombing intended to assassinate the German Führer Adolf Hitler at his Wolf’s Lair field headquarters in what is now Gierłoż, Poland. The anniversary offers the opportunity to reflect not only on the nature of courage in dark times, but on the character and limits of Christian resistance to political evil.
Marc LiVeccheAugust 2, 2019
In Land of Hope: An Invitation to the Great American Story, McClay invites his reader to consider that the glory of America is in managing and living out the tension between her high ideals and her historical circumstances.
Ian LindquistAugust 2, 2019
In Holy Rus’, Burgess shows what happens when a Calvinist who knows little about Russian Orthodoxy lives (temporarily) in Russia.
George BarrosAugust 1, 2019
It’s too bad yesterday’s 400th anniversary of the Western Hemisphere’s oldest continuous legislative assembly was overshadowed by contemporary political controversies….
Mark TooleyJuly 31, 2019
For Providence readers, there are three topics of particular interest from the Prodigal Prophet’s second half: justice, politics, and patriotism.
Mark MeltonJuly 31, 2019
According to Jonah Goldberg in Suicide of the West, the death of the country will not be the result of civil war but the culmination of a steady rot of the ideas and institutions that produced the liberty and prosperity of the West.
Grayson LogueJuly 30, 2019
In AD 641, Muslim Arabs completed their conquest of Egypt, expelling the former Byzantine rulers. The native Christian Copts embarked on a grueling centuries-long struggle for survival.
Richard TadaJuly 29, 2019
C.S. Lewis, standing in an Augustinian stream, reveals the guidance found in the Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian patrimony that has fortified Christian intelligence regarding the use of force since the beginnings of the church.
Marc LiVeccheJuly 26, 2019
How do Martin Luther’s Reformation ideas relate to Latin America today?
Braulia RibeiroJuly 26, 2019