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The Changing Religious Demographics Of The U.S. October 28, 2025
Kite & Key Media reports on religious diversity in the United States and why Christianity will drop below 50% as Millennials grow old....
Faith of Our Founders October 20, 2025
Senator Tim Kaine came within a shade of being our vice president a decade ago, despite apparently knowing very little about American history. He recently likened "the notion that rights don't come from laws and don't come from the government but com...
Why God Came Back October 16, 2025
Nearly 60 years ago, Time magazine, then an important publication, posed a discomfiting question on its cover: “Is God Dead?” Yet today, a spiritual hunger grips America, with roughly two-thirds of religiously unaffiliated Americans still believing i...
The Right to Bear Technology October 16, 2025
One of the greatest Saturday Night Live skits in recent memory begins in Philadelphia in 1789. A fife plays as James Madison announces the First Amendment, the cornerstone of our republic: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of re...
How I Learned to Love Confession October 15, 2025
When I converted to Catholicism in 2023 after eighteen months of RCIA, I was almost totally ignorant of the mortal sins I would need to confess before taking communion. My RCIA priest had said that we were required to confess once a year, or any time...
Taking Charles Murray Seriously October 14, 2025
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 religion. O...
The Book That Could Shake the Pope’s Faith October 14, 2025
The eternal truths of religion are having a moment. Church pews are filling up with newcomers. Gen Z is earnestly discussing demons and sedevacantism on social media. This might, therefore, seem like a good time to publish a book which purports to la...
John Ford’s America October 13, 2025
A young person wanting to learn something of American history could do worse than to watch the works of director John Ford (1894-1973).One of the great American filmmakers—in my view, the greatest—Ford delved deeply and repeatedly into American histo...
Tradition: Everyone’s Doing It! October 10, 2025
Summer is poised to turn to fall and school is back in session. Families everywhere are getting back into a routine (or trying to). Transitions can be hard for even the most squared away families, but the Hallow App is offering the Catholic ones a cu...
Did Leo Strauss Get Religion? October 08, 2025
The Jewish political philosopher Leo Strauss (1899-1973) is famous for having said that the “roots” of Western civilization are the Hebrew Bible and Greek philosophy – each providing an estimable portrait of the human soul at its best – and for decla...
Hillary Clinton Rips White Christian Men October 02, 2025
Former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton aroused the ire of the political Right when she satirized the idea of the dominance of “white men of a certain persuasion, a certain religion,” saying that did damage to the nation....
The West Needs To Rediscover Religion & Enchantment September 30, 2025
Rod Dreher has a gift for prognostication. Well before anyone could see the rise of populist conservatism in reaction to encroaching secularism and institutional decline, Dreher wrote The Benedict Option, which described this evolution. Published in ...
The New Political Religion—and How to Fight It September 30, 2025
To read Paul Gottfried is to engage in a kind of political archaeology, to sift through the semantic rubble of a civilization that no longer remembers what its own words mean. The occasion for this exercise is The Essential Paul Gottfried: Essays fro...
Free Speech, Always September 26, 2025
My father, who took a somewhat jaundiced and cynical view of the United States, always retained a reverence for the Founding Fathers. He saw them as brilliant, flawed men who attempted a framework for a new nation that was, at once, remarkably innova...
The Grand Valley by Morgan Meis September 15, 2025
In the final, absorbing volume of his Three Paintings Trilogy, philosopher and critic Morgan Meis explores the art of Joan Mitchell and in particular one of her crowning achievements, the Grand Valley series. Mitchell, a twentieth-century American ar...
Everybody’s Generalizing These Days September 03, 2025
When I get online, my feeds are bursting full with sweeping generalizations about every kind of demographic group—races, religions, sexes, nationalities…the whole gamut. It wasn’t such a long time ago that this was something people didn’t do publicly...
The UK's Quiet Religious Revival June 18, 2025
A “quiet revival” in Christian practice may be underway in Britain. Church attendance, depressed by the pandemic, appears to have not just recovered but to have grown, especially among 18 to 24-year-olds. Generation Z is less atheistic than their par...
It Turns Out He Has a Heart June 16, 2025
FOR TOO LONG, the edgelords have claimed Michel Houellebecq. Right-wingers take delight in the French author’s reputation as a provocateur, including his central role in lawsuits for calling Islam “the stupidest religion” and for partaking in a sex t...
Rebirth Dearth June 09, 2025
Earlier this year, the Pew Research Center published the latest results of its ongoing Religious Landscape Study (RLS), a nationwide survey of over 35,000 Americans. A little thrill of excitement rippled through the cultural atmosphere, especially am...
Art, Religion, and Culture in the ’80s May 20, 2025
Catholic scholar Paul Elie has written a penetrating, provocative, and insightful book. In The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s, Elie explores art, politics, and culture in the 1980s at the intersection with Christianity. Hi...
Religion and Empire, Inseparable April 30, 2025
In February 2022, when Russia launched its second invasion of Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia blessed the invading forces as “the active manifestation of evangelical love for neighbors.” Later that year, Kirill dubbed Vladimir Puti...
The American Mind, Opened April 22, 2025
In a letter to Henry Lee penned a little more than a year before his death, Thomas Jefferson famously described the Declaration of Independence as “an expression of the American mind.” With great learning and insight, Paul Seaton explores the foundin...
The Persistence of the Ideological Lie by Daniel J. Mahoney April 21, 2025
The Ideological Lie, as Solzhenitsyn calls it, was born when modern revolutionaries replaced the age-old distinction between good and evil with the illusory distinction between progress and reaction. In the name of progress, evil was called goodness,...
What ‘White Lotus’ Got Right April 21, 2025
For the past several weeks, fans of The White Lotus on Max (formerly HBO) relished sitting in judgment over the idle rich. Even as the characters took various wellness treatments at the Thailand branch of the fictional White Lotus luxury resort, most...
The Romance of C.S. Lewis April 16, 2025
S. Lewis (1898–1963) continues to engage and intrigue his multiple audiences, particularly in the realms of popular apologetics and academic literary scholarship. While professional literary scholars acknowledge Lewis for his Preface to Paradise Lost...
