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Jesus After the Critics ([link removed])

by Michael C. Legaspi

From the June/July issue: One strand of scholarship aims at recovering a historical Jesus shorn of dogmatic accretions and stripped of ecclesiastical vestment, a Jesus whose words, actions, and motivations are best understood with reference to the pre-Christian time and place in which he lived. (For more,listen to ([link removed]) R. R. Reno interview Legaspi.)
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When Progressive Foundations Fund Evangelism ([link removed])

by Megan Basham

The American Values Coalition launched a “faith outreach” initiative, the J29 Coalition. Its stated purpose is to “disciple the American Evangelical church in kingdom-shaped politics.” And not just any evangelical churches, but those whose pastors “self-identify as theologically conservative.”
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Ireland Erases Its Catholic Inheritance ([link removed])

by John Duggan

According to a recent study, one in four of the Irish, many of them descendants of the generations who held fast to the faith through persecution, walk around wishing to see the Catholic Church not simply further weakened or diminished, but wiped out.
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The National Conservatism Conference ([link removed])

Sponsored by NatCon

The National Conservatism Conference brings together public figures, journalists, scholars, and students who understand that the past and future of conservatism are inextricably tied to the idea of the nation, to the principle of national independence, and to the revival of the unique national traditions that alone have the power to bind a people together and bring about their flourishing.
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Make Harvard Congregationalist Again ([link removed])

by Vilda Westh Blanc and Tim Rosenberger

Many schools, like the Ivies, were founded as religious institutions, but have since abandoned that heritage. Harvard was launched by Puritans in 1636. Congregationalists founded Yale and Dartmouth, while Baptists founded Brown, Presbyterians founded Princeton, and Anglicans founded Columbia.
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Can Progressives Get Behind Parental Rights for All? ([link removed])

by Robert P. George

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled in Mahmoud v. Taylor that Montgomery County violated the Constitution by seeking to prohibit parents from opting their six-year-old kids out of lessons and storybook readings promoting concepts like transgenderism, same-sex marriage, and Pride parades.
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