Letters to the Editor: January-February 2022

The Crux of the Controversy... Falling Back on Tired Tropes... Doing His Duty?... A Negligible Difference... Profound Implications... Misinformation & a Multibillion-Dollar Vaccine... more

The News You May Have Missed: January-February 2022

Offensive to Offenders... Your Money for God’s Time... Scandinavian Slumber Party... Musk Memorabilia... and more

A Common Grief, Re-observed

OUGHT WE PRAY TO OR PRAY FOR OUR SON?

Kody W. Cooper

All Christian believers who affirm personhood from the moment of conception can appreciate the puzzle of the status of unborn children who never had the chance to receive baptism.

What Would Joe Sobran Say?

THE EXUBERANT WARRIOR

Peter Maurice

Sobran’s cultural and historical memory informed him that the permanent things are never finally won or forever lost, and the battle continues.

Infinite Monkey Theorem

A SHORT STORY

Joshua Hren

I hated myself for helping the ape. I hated the pleasure his development gave me, like I was a god lifting this furry mute from stupidity.

A Time of Reckoning

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

The priestly sex-abuse scandal will bring the Church in America to the same sad state as her counterpart in France: discredited and depopulated, a shell of her former self.

Overcoming Our Culture of Indifference

REVERT'S ROSTRUM

Casey Chalk

We are called to care for the sojourner and to be sympathetic and responsive to the needs of those fleeing poverty, political oppression, or religious persecution.

An Atheist in Paradise

ASCENT INTO GLORY & DESCENT INTO DESPAIR

Alvaro Delgado

As we reached the top of the mountain, she flailed her ski poles in the air and yelled angrily, “There is no God! There is no Heaven! There is no Hell!”

An American Hodgepodge of Religious Kookery

Jason M. Morgan

The temptation to be religiously promiscuous is simply how Protestantism works. Once the individual is the axis, the whole world takes the shape of the ego exalted.

Briefly Reviewed: January-February 2022

A review of Unborn Human Life and Fundamental Rights: Leading Constitutional Cases Under Scrutiny, edited by Pilar Zambrano and William L. Saunders.

Last Things: January-February 2022

David Mills

What signs of distinction do Christians give? The signs must say not only, “We’re not one of you,” but “Come and see.” We’re not so good at those signs.