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COVID and the Craving for Certainty – Religion & Liberty Online
In March of 2020, I published an essay warning both the public and our policymakers against overreacting to the COVID threat. We overreact, I argued, in times of “epistemic uncertainty,” when we do not know enough about a threat we face and are…
Liberalism Revisited – Religion & Liberty Online
For the past decade or so, we have become more accustomed to speak of a “crisis” of liberalism. No doubt that is one reason why Notre Dame Press has chosen to re-release David Walsh’s The Growth of the Liberal Soul. Originally published in 1997,…
Amy Coney Barrett Listens to the Law – Religion & Liberty Online
Many Americans wonder if any jurist on the U.S. Supreme Court will ever be able to fill the shoes of the late, great Justice Antonin Scalia, who passed in 2016. President Trump has—so far—appointed three avowedly originalist justices with the…
Twelfth Night Revels, Revelations, and the Death of Rabelais – Religion & Liberty Online
In the Christian calendar, the Feast of the Epiphany marks the coming of the Magi, whose journey signals the first revelation of the Incarnation to the wider world. With Epiphany, the days of Christmas end, though the afterglow of the Nativity…
Our Philo-Semitic History – Religion & Liberty Online
To hold in one’s hands a book like Josh Hammer’s Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish State and the Destiny of the West is the kind of privilege that comes with residency in the civilized West. Envious minds populating much of the…
An Evangelical Pastor in Ukraine – Religion & Liberty Online
A lot can happen in nine months. A baby grows from a tiny fleck invisible to the naked eye into a full-size infant and is born. A school year begins and ends. Winter, spring, and summer pass by, giving way to fall. Crops are planted and a…
How the Church Once Governed – Religion & Liberty Online
The prelapsarian order enjoys a diversity of interpretations in the modern imagination. For some, it represents a prosperous symbiotic relationship between an originally vegetarian human civilization and creation: “The Lord God took the man and…
Calvinist Critical Theory – Religion & Liberty Online
God at Work: Loving God and Neighbor Through the Book of Exodus, a new book from Anthony Bradley, Distinguished Research Fellow at the Acton Institute and professor of interdisciplinary and theological studies at Kuyper College, is not another…
Man, Not Ape
What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels, And You have crowned him with glory and honor. Continue Reading... Source link
Taking Charles Murray Seriously – Religion & Liberty Online
All happy conversion stories are alike. Every unhappy conversion story is unhappy in its own way. Is how Tolstoy might have put it, if he weren’t, you know, dead. Charles Murray, he of Bell Curve fame and attendant controversy, has gotten…