Some people have put it bluntly: If you follow organized religion, you must be deluding yourself, living with severe cognitive dissonance or cherry picking to only accept ideas that make you feel ...

(RNS) In 1947 and 1948, respectively, Christian scholars C.S. Lewis and Reinhold Niebuhr appeared on the cover of Time magazine. Since then, commentators have bemoaned the disappearance of the ...

The conversation about Christian intellectuals in America was revived recently by humanities professor Alan Jacobs in an essay for Harper’s entitled “The Watchmen.” Jacobs noted, briefly, that race ...

The chief business of a college has to do with the thinking of its students. God created man to be a thinking being. The Bible recognizes the central importance of thought. It does not, of course, ...

In a poem called “Men Made Out of Words,” Wallace Stevens says it all: “Life consists / Of propositions about life.” He goes on to suggest that thinking, what he calls “the human reverie,” is a ...

One of the Live Not By Lies themes I keep banging on is the importance of elites and elite networks in driving cultural revolution. From the book: In our populist era, politicians and talk-radio ...

The Mind of the Master Class is a masterpiece. In The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders’ Worldview, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene Genovese embark upon a task ...

Editor's note: The following is adapted from the author's new book, "The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation" Sentinel (March 14, 2017). The future of Christianity in ...

That in certain ways he rendered great service is undoubted, especially in his demand for high rectitude of conduct, but it is a pity, great beyond all computation, that the man whose dictates have ...