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The Work Ethic Incarnate
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (109+ words) Which brings us to the embodiment of the work ethic: Baltimore (not Indianapolis) Colts split end Raymond Berry, who died on May 25 at age ninety-three. The highest grade he ever gave himself was eighty-seven. George Weigel is Distinguished Senior Fellow…...
The Invisible Hand of Faith
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (406+ words) One of those eventually expelled was Fredrik Olaus Nilsson, a sailor and the founder of Sweden’s first Baptist congregation in 1848. Reflecting later on his persecution, he wrote: It has been my privilege, for the testimony of Jesus, to be dragged…...
Worth Beyond Our Works
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (152+ words) In the future, everyone will know the grief of Garry Kasparov. The Russian grandmaster was bested by the chess-playing computer Deep Blue in 1997. No human competitor since then has made a plausible run at taking the title back. When our…...
The American Covenant’s Answer to AI
3+ mon, 2+ day ago (1646+ words) And they come to us at a time when the moral fabric of our national life is already badly frayed. The greatest test of our age is to repair that fabric and reclaim the moral vision that binds us together…...
The Genesis of Economics
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (119+ words) And so we come full circle. Our way of doing economics has contributed to our cultural malaise, which can be healed only if we’re willing, like Jacob, to be wounded. To that paradoxical cure, Bruni proposes, the Bible can make…...
The Peace We Can Make
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (274+ words) Repetition, it’s said, can be the mother of learning. So, in light of recent Catholic debates about the pursuit of peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, permit me to reprise, with slight adjustments, parts of a column from twenty-four…...
The Donatist Comeback
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (178+ words) All of which is worth recalling today because, like other great heresies, Donatism seems to make a comeback from time to time. And one of those times is now. For there are two sectors of the world Church that currently…...
Briefly Noted
6+ mon, 20+ hour ago (55+ words) The Eternal Pilgrim:A Life of Saint Norbertby dominique-marie dauzet,translated by norbert j. woodsophia institute, 240 pages, $18.95 Create an account below to continue reading. Or, subscribe for full unlimited access Defend religious voices in the public square today. Consider a gift…...
Frequenting the Frontlines of Life
7+ mon, 2+ week ago (377+ words) It was a brisk early morning when I set off from the John Jay Institute last Friday to attend the March for Life in Washington, D.C. Having just spent the last year closely following the daily politics of the capital, I…...