Source: Jordan B Peterson Clips via YouTube. Dr. Peterson and Abigail Shrier discuss the complexities of evil, its various prototypes, and how it often masquerades as benevolence or compassion, manipulating trust and morality. Drawing from literature like Dante’s Inferno and works by Eric Neumann and Jeffrey Burton Russell, Peterson provides […]
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Pope Benedict on Intelligent Design and the Dangers of Darwinian Materialism
Source: Bruce Chapman via evolutionnews.orgReprinted with permission Recalling the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI, I will always appreciate the fact that he recognized the dangers of Darwinian materialism, perhaps most strikingly in the homily he delivered at his installation in 2005. “We are not some casual and meaningless product of […]
IRISH CATHOLICS ON THE WORLD STAGE
Source: John Duggan via First ThingsReprinted with permission The assassination of John F. Kennedy sixty years ago in Dallas is remembered in large part for all of the things it is reputed to have shattered: postwar American optimism, faith in American institutions, and so on. If JFK had got out […]
Christianity Rapidly Grows in Iran
Source: CBN News via YouTube.com For more than three weeks, hundreds of thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets to protest against the Iranian regime. Some hope this could lead to a change of leadership in the Islamic Republic of Iran. It’s also spurring more people to turn to […]
Life as a Half-Full Glass
Source: Marvin Olasky via Evolution News (Discovery Institute) Reprinted with permission. Life is full of semi-miracles: Let us rejoice and be glad. If you’ve ever sat in a mark-up session where senators edit prospective federal laws, you’re not surprised that most legislation is messy sausage-making. If you’ve ever visited a […]
How to Make Life-Changing Decisions
Source: Nathaniel Peters via thepublicdiscourse.com Originally appeared in The Public Discourse, the journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton NJ, and is reprinted with permission For the most significant choices of our lives, we only learn what the decision entails after we make it. This creates something of a dilemma. We […]
“They killed his four children in his presence”
Monsignor Obiora Ike, a Nigerian priest and human rights activist, was recently in Bokkos County of Plateau State, where Fulani jihadists murdered twenty Christians in a series of attacks in late November. He spoke to us about what he saw. To learn more about the crisis in Nigeria, visit www.nigeria-report.org […]
Christians Are Being Killed’: Critics Outraged at Biden Admin as Murder and Terror Rage in Nigeria
Source: CBN News via YouTube.com Religious freedom advocates are “outraged” and confounded after the Biden administration again declined to add Nigeria to the U.S. Department of State’s Countries of Particular Concern list, a designation targeting nations restricting or complicit in religious freedom violations. Joel Veldkamp, head of international communications at […]
Toward a New Vision of Wealth
Source: Elayne Allen via thepublicdiscourse.com Reprinted with permission In modern societies, wealth is not tied to land or long-lasting material things, nor is it transmitted across generations; it is fluid, shapeshifting, and usually doesn’t extend beyond the horizon of our own lives and personal needs. This series attempts to offer fresh […]
Moving From A Crisis of Beauty To A Culture of Reverence
Source: Margarita Mooney Clayton via thewayofbeauty.org Reprinted with permission. The present time of crisis in higher education may tempt us away from pondering fundamental questions about the human person that are essential to understanding what education is all about. But educators should not fall prey to cultural or societal pessimism—it […]
Counting the Cost by C.S. Lewis
Source: CSLewisDoodle via YouTube.com BBC Talk 24A, Mere Christianity, Bk. 4, Chapter 9. “Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to re-build that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He’s doing. He’s getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on: […]
Star Wars: Humanity vs. The Machine
Source: Word on Fire via YouTube.com In this episode of Watch With Me, dive into the oft imitated but never replicated original Star Wars trilogy. Learn how the original trilogy’s representation of the Force goes deeper than the more recent Star Wars movies, and how the theme of machine vs. […]