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Newman, Doctor for the Modern World ([link removed])
by Paul Shrimpton
St. John Henry Newman’s view opens new horizons in the world of poetry, literature, film, and the arts in general. Seeing the world “the Newman way” would be energizing and uplifting.
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Sydney Sweeney and the Real Eugenics Threat ([link removed])
by John M. Grondelski
Want to buy an Ivy League grad’s ova to give Junior a leg up on brains? Not a problem—though it’s going to cost you. And with the ongoing normalization of “family formation” as an intentional act rather than a biological relationship, the trend will only grow stronger.
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The Death of Mainline Protestantism ([link removed])
by Carl R. Trueman
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has this year closed its foreign mission agency. This move is a sign of the denomination’s financial struggles, but it is also the logical outworking of the kind of squeamishness about missionary work that the religious pluralism of the PCUSA engenders.
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Just How Big Is Britain’s Religious Revival? ([link removed])
by Stephen Bullivant
Often, when a piece of religious research attracts media attention for its eye-popping stats, it’s fairly easy to see what—or who—has gone wrong. This time around, however, it’s not so easy.
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Bishop Barron and the German Church ([link removed])
by Hans Feichtinger
In our time, and especially in Germany, attempts at finding the middle ground, at being centered or balanced—qualities that Robert Barron embodies academically and temperamentally—are deemed irresponsible at best and dangerous at worst.
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