God gone silent

Mar 30, 2024 by

By Peter Leithart, First Things. God’s advent is accompanied by great noise. He walks in Eden “in the Spirit of the day,” and descends to Sinai with a trumpet blast. To Ezekiel, his voice is the clamor of many waters. When he appears in...

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A Kingship Not of This World

Mar 30, 2024 by

By John F Doherty, Public Discourse. In its Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, the Catholic Church gave its answer to the question whether the force of civil law may make baptized Christians, or anyone, conform to...

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The Source of All Blessings

Mar 29, 2024 by

By Fr Benedict Kiley, European Conservative. The Cross is the most awful sign the world has ever known, and the only sign that brings victory and hope: “In hoc signo vinces.” Most people know the apocryphal story of the person who goes...

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Courage to Engage the World: Thomism at 750

Mar 12, 2024 by

By R J Snell, Public Discourse. It is 750 years since Thomas Aquinas died on March 7, 1274. Merely forty-nine at the time of his death and, despite a short writing career of only two decades, beset with many duties of teaching, preaching,...

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Geographical episcopacy – a further response to Charlie Bell

Mar 11, 2024 by

by Martin Davie: In my previous article on this site I responded to Charlie Bell’s article ‘Finding a way through’ by explaining that the proposal put forward by the Church of England Evangelical Council and the wider Alliance movement...

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Nihilism — in Nazi Germany and today

Mar 9, 2024 by

By Carl Trueman, First Things.  (image credit: Wikimedia Commons) Twice in the last ten days my dear friend and colleague Fran Maier has drawn attention to the importance of Dietrich Bonhoeffer for the church in America today. At...

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