14+ hour, 30+ min ago  (1877+ words) Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 " June 9, 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago  (247+ words) The last three centuries have proven that imposing an ideological vision upon any civilization is cataclysmic. So we must conclude'annoyingly'that no formula can resurrect a Christian culture, but only a Christian response to the concrete needs of real people. Part…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago  (362+ words) I have been blind, It was to truth that I was summoned. Now I understand what is meant by freedom. I was wrong to confess that what I had done was not well. It is God's wish that I die…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (754+ words) Joseph Pearce is Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative. A native of England, Mr. Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). He is…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago  (856+ words) Authentic discipleship transforms all aspects of life, every day, at work, at home, in all relationships. My discipleship to Jesus is, within clearly definable limits, not a matter of what I do, but of how I do it. "God's desire…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (100+ words) The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman (392 pages, Belknap Press, 2009) The Jamestown "project" was that of finally establishing a successful English settlement in the New World. By the time Jamestown was founded, the English had attempted colonization everywhere from Canada…...

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (314+ words) The reason for the re-reading is obvious: If increased population dooms men to war for finite resources, then the Genesis blessing "be fruitful and multiply" is no blessing, but a curse. So Malthus sought to reconcile a scarce universe and…...

6+ day, 18+ hour ago  (851+ words) While scientific inquiry and advances have changed the world we live in, it does not have the power to penetrate even a centimeter into the primary question of God. "Why," to ask the question posed by Stephen Hawking, who, until…...

6+ day, 19+ hour ago  (313+ words) Queen of Heaven The Imaginative Conservative To understand who the heavenly queen is, we can look at the Bible's historical context from ancient Near East kingdoms. In Mariology: A Guide for Priests, Deacons, Seminarians, and Consecrated Persons, Dr. Edward Sri…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago  (696+ words) The "miracle at Philadelphia," that series of events culminating in the legal formation of the United States, has proved largely inimitable over the past two-and-a-half centuries. Beyond American shores, earnest attempts to replicate the credenda of the American founding and…...