The Pope, the President, and the Pacifist Illusion
The pope can raise legitimate questions about whether U.S. action against Iran meets the criteria of just war theory. But that is not at all what he has done.
The pope can raise legitimate questions about whether U.S. action against Iran meets the criteria of just war theory. But that is not at all what he has done.
For Christmas 1941, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis sought to find the light amid a dark season.
A story that needs retelling in our age of rage.
C. S. Lewis offered a moral and intellectual antidote to the totalitarian temptation: a return to ancient truths to help defeat the lies of his own day, and of ours.
It has passed into history as proof of Christian America’s ‘war on science.’ Less remembered is that it’s an example of Christianity standing against eugenics.
Look to Venice, once the publishing center of the world, for an early example of vigorous open discourse now being pushed aside in Europe and elsewhere.
Importantly, the Bible was Rush’s battering ram in the abolitionist cause.
J. R. R. Tolkien provided a compelling, persuasive argument for the truth of the faith, well worth remembering this Easter Sunday.