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Talking Race: Community Over Conflict
All One in Christ surveys and compares Catholic Church documents with literature on Critical Race Theory (CRT) as they address racism.
Sexuality and Gender: Returning to the Sources
Once in a very long while one finds a volume that checks four boxes: It is a joy to read; academically fair and well-informed; timely enough to be essential reading in a current debate; and not so thick that it can double as a doorstop. Brian Patrick Mitchell’s book on Christian sexuality and gender is such a rarity. One is tempted to add that in the current cultural climate, with so much errant nonsense being written about sexuality and gender, that his book should be required reading for any wanting to opine on the topic.
Unlikely Centers of Cultural Change
For a time, then, coffeehouses exercised a crucial but (today) largely unremarked influence upon the fashioning of Anglo-American civilization. Mr. Reynolds’s fine book seeks to remedy that deficiency.
Higher Law and Public Order: Martin Luther King Jr. and Charles Frankel on Civil Disobedience
When, if ever, should one disobey a law? How should one pursue change in the case of social or legal injustice? Our discourse does not adequately address these questions.
Found in Translation: Capturing the Sublime with Ryan Wilson
Through practice rather than theory, Wilson is recovering a lost way of understanding the charm and power of an anthology, beyond the textbook and vanity projects that have predominated the market over the last century.
The Mysterious Being in the Ring
“Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, but what is the point of him? He is one of the most enigmatic characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, and perhaps also the most polarizing.”
Forgotten No More—Remembering M. Stanton Evans
“In this biography of Evans, Steven F. Hayward has offered not merely Evans’s story but what amounts to a history of the conservative movement through Stan’s eyes.”
Indignity Human (and Poetic?)
“Merrill…reveals a propensity for fiction not only thought-provoking, but also soul-searching.”
Politics Between History and Eternity
“Far from being an obscure intellectual backwater, the story of the nouvelle theologie and its rivals may illuminate the central animating conflict of Christian political theology as such.”
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