Dear Reader,

You’d have been forgiven for missing it amidst the excitement and pageantry of this year’s Super Bowl, but as what would become the game-winning kick passed through the uprights, some viewers noticed something peeking out from Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker’s uniform: a Scapular.
 
As DEI bromides grace National Football League fields and the NFL voices its fealty to the Rainbow Reich (“football is for EVERYONE”: less a declaration of fact than a threat), this small moment illumined a path forward.
 
On the field, Butker glorifies God through excellence, not ostentatious displays; off the field, he is a bold and clear defender of the faith, come what may.
 
For this reason, it is a special privilege to sit down with Harrison Butker on Monday, July 10, at the Kansas City Irish Center’s Drexel Hall for a conversation on “Magnanimity in a Polarized World.” To reserve your seat, please use this secure link or the registration button below.

As we plunge deeper into what Aaron Renn described in our pages as the “negative world,” religious believers yearn for heroes: for people of prominence—people with much to lose—to champion the natural truths of the given order and the supernatural truths of orthodox faith.
 
Few have answered the call.
 
But perhaps the tide is turning. As Major League Baseball’s Los Angeles Dodgers prepare to celebrate an abhorrent group called “the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” at their LGBT Pride Night, some players are starting to speak out.  
 
We need more men like Harrison Butker. I am honored to join him in a thoughtful discussion of “Magnanimity in a Polarized World” on July 10. To learn more or secure your place, please click on the button below.

Yours,

R. R. Reno
Editor