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January 27, 2023
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Mama Shot the Deer!
Ryan T. Anderson
The Lamp

Our homesteading experience began when we had two hours to kill between the nuptial Mass of two friends and their wedding reception. We headed to Home Depot, and loaded the car up with four hundred feet of fencing and T-posts. The next day this became our first one hundred foot by one hundred foot goat pen, and a few weeks later we brought home several goats inside my Honda Element. About a month after that, my father-in-law transformed an old firewood shed into a chicken coop. Meanwhile, I lay in bed recovering from an infection that didn’t respond to normal antibiotics. It was my first lesson in my own inadequacies as a homesteader. When I recovered, we moved the chicks from our basement to what is more rightly called a chicken mansion. (This was pre-plague, when lumber was cheap. Now we mill our own wood.)

Our children know quite a bit about the miracle of life, actually. They’ve witnessed goat labor, and it looks exactly as you might expect. They were in the pasture with my wife and me as one mama goat gave birth to three kids, one of which came out with the sac fully intact, spraying amniotic fluid and breaking only upon hitting the ground. They know the entity growing in a womb is a baby: a baby goat when in a goat womb, a baby human when in a human womb. They both kissed their mother’s belly once it started showing that their baby brother was inside. They also know that not all newborns make it. One of our lambs was born with the sheep equivalent of cleft palate, making him unable to nurse at his mother’s teat. We hadn’t built our barn yet, so we brought him into the house to bottle-feed. Shortly before dinnertime, he died on the dining room floor. We didn’t talk too much about it, but also didn’t downplay it. We hoped the experience would convey something of the goodness and the
fragility of life. The children knew that we had done what we could to help that lamb, but also that there are limits to what any of us can do. Many people fear and deny death (and, in a different way, birth), but for now our kids seem unfazed by both. They have seen more birth and death than I did in my first few decades.
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Michael Cromartie Forum Call for Nominations
On April 23–25, 2023, Faith Angle will host our third Michael Cromartie Forum, convening 16 Millennial and Gen Z reporters, columnists, and editors for discussions with some of our nation’s leading scholars and journalists. Speakers include Amanda Ripley, Yuval Levin, Jon Ward, Christine Emba, and others ([link removed]) .

Do you know an under-35 journalist beginning a bright career who might benefit from a Faith Angle forum in the nation’s capital? Nominate ([link removed]) a young journalist today. Applications are due February 28^th.
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Victimhood ([link removed]) is in vogue in modern culture. Carrie Gress describes the roots of this phenomenon in The Theology of Home.
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Stephen P. White criticizes ([link removed]) calls to remove barriers to participation in the Eucharist in his latest for The Catholic Thing.
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In Public Discourse, Alexandra DeSanctis addresses the need for abortion policy ([link removed]) at the federal level as well as in the states.
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A series of New York Times pieces open the broader public ([link removed]) to dissent from transgender orthodoxy, writes Nathanael Blake for The Christian Post.
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George Weigel's latest in The Catholic Difference recounts a funerary dinner with extraordinary company—Cardinal Joseph Zen and the now-deceased Cardinal George Pell.
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Ryan T. Anderson on Pastoral Life
Ryan T. Anderson joined The Lamplighters podcast for a conversation ([link removed]) on the intersection of family life and animal husbandry in response to his Lamp essay.
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Anti-Catholic Violence and Government Silence
The latest EDIFY podcast is an EPPC double-header, with host Mary FioRito joined by Ed Whelan as they weigh in on threats and acts of domestic terrorism ([link removed]) perpetrated against churches and pregnancy resource centers across America.
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Carl R. Trueman on Evangelization and the Self
On Tuesday, Carl R. Trueman joined the Ploughcast to discuss his authorial work, The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self ([link removed]) , and how the development of the self affects evangelization ([link removed]) today.
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TODAY: The Age of Roe: The Past, Present, and Future of Abortion in America
Harvard Radcliffe Institute will hold a major public conference January 26–27, 2023, to probe the complex and unpredictable ways that Roe v. Wade and its aftermath shaped the United States and the world beyond it for nearly half a century. The existential issue of abortion—and the galvanizing impact of Roe in particular—transformed the nation’s politics and public policy and its social movement energies, as well as the operations of the courtroom and the clinic.

Make sure to tune in at 3:00 PM for Session 4 of the conference, in which Erika Bachiochi is a panelist.
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Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre
February 9, 7–9 PM
Ford's Theatre
511 10th St NW, Washington DC, 20004
In an evening co-sponsored with EPPC, Princeton University’s James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and Ford’s Theater will host renowned historian Allen C. Guelzo in conversation with Lucas Morel of Washington and Lee University and Richard Brookhiser of National Review. The trio will discuss the newly-released 2nd edition of Dr. Guelzo’s book, Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President ([link removed]) . Join Dr. Guelzo for an exciting night of exploring the legacy of America’s most celebrated president!
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