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AI, Human Uniqueness, and Public Policy: Why “Image of God” Still Matters in a Secular Age
10+ mon, 5+ day ago (204+ words) however intelligent, can share our moral status. AI may outthink us, but it can never out-image us. Only...
Day 12: How Real is the Meaning?
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (550+ words) By Walter Russell Mead on January 5, 2026 By now, the Three Kings are almost to Bethlehem, and the Christmas season is drawing to a close. But the Three Kings (actually, “wise men” according to Matthew’s Gospel) aren’t just bringing their famous…...
Seven Christian Realist Principles on Nuclear Weapons - Providence
1+ mon, 2+ day ago (27+ words) Though we may wish that nuclear weapons did not exist, Christian realists must be clear-eyed about the realities of a world that cannot un-invent the atom bomb...
Forgetting the Lessons of the Greatest Generation - Providence
10+ mon, 1+ day ago (85+ words) By Sean Patrick Calabria on November 11, 2025 Sponsor a Student for Christianity & National Security! Providence‘s biggest event of the year, the Christianity & National Security, will take place over Oct 16-17 in Washington, DC, for undergrad and grad students. It costs $500 per…...
Day 4: The Hinge of Fate
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (436+ words) By Walter Russell Mead on December 28, 2025 We will look more closely at the Wise Men later in the season. For today it’s enough to know that their calculations about the movements of the heavenly bodies led them to believe that…...
Day 8: One for All
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (587+ words) By Walter Russell Mead on January 1, 2026 These facts are so familiar to us that it’s sometimes easy to miss the troubling questions around them. A regrettable couplet by the British journalist William Norman Ewer sums up what some have felt…...
Day 10: The Mother of All Meaning
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (518+ words) By Walter Russell Mead on January 3, 2026 The key to the classic understanding of who Mary is lies in ideas that the overwhelming majority of American Protestant churches share with the Catholics and the Orthodox. Specifically, these have to do with…...
Indonesia and the War of Ideas against Radical Islamism - Providence
10+ mon, 1+ week ago (801+ words) By John Lenczowski on November 5, 2025 I recently visited the capital of Indonesia, Jakarta, where I was invited to deliver a series of lectures to the top twenty leaders of the largest Islamic organization in the world — the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)…...
In Defense of Dark Humor - Providence
11+ mon, 2+ week ago (79+ words) By Rebekah Bills on September 25, 2025 Sponsor a Student for Christianity & National Security! Providence‘s biggest event of the year, the Christianity & National Security, will take place over Oct 16-17 in Washington, DC, for undergrad and grad students. It costs $500 per student…...
Day 11: Sitting in Darkness, Blogging the Light
8+ mon, 1+ week ago (404+ words) By Walter Russell Mead on January 4, 2026 As the Christmas season draws to a close, and the Yule Blog moves toward its close for another year, I find myself looking back over this short period of intense religion writing and thinking…...