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If You Read One Novel This Year, Make It “Brideshead Revisited”

Dr. Christopher Kaczor

Scene from Brideshead Revisited by Jean Beraud

The story at root is about love: the love of a mother for an alcoholic son and wayward husband, the love of spouses grown glacial, and the love of eros fraught with difficulties.

Sorolla’s Painting, a Call to Repentance

Alejandro Terán-Somohano

Spanish artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida’s painting is far more than an eloquent social critique. It is a call to repentance.

Tattoos, O’Connor, and a Sacramental Worldview

Lauren Meyers

Tattooed hand reaching out

A sacramental understanding of the body is the remedy to disintegrated humanity. Tattoos are insufficient in recapturing a sacramental nature.

John Daniel Davidson’s ‘Pagan America’ Delivers on Pessimism

Rachel Lu

Pagan America cover

"Pagan America" is endearing and often evocative but in the end bogs down in apocalyptic rhetoric and fails to deliver much useful advice.

Liz Kelly’s Mission for Women’s Formation

Nell O’Leary

women gathered at a table

Liz Kelly leads the Women's Formation Community in the Institute, and she knows women hold a unique and very powerful role in evangelization.

Insight for Evangelists from Avenged Sevenfold

Nick Haydon

Avenged Sevenfold performing on stage in Manchester

Reflecting on what Avenged Sevenfold are saying/screaming provided me with insight into how the secular, nonreligious world understands God.

The Vision of Society as a Trust

Dr. Richard Clements

A bustling crowd of people

Members of society are trustees with an obligation to conserve and enhance benefits they have and pass them on to the next generations.

I’m Worried About the Girls

Kerri Christopher

girl staring forward with pigtail buns and bold pink eyeshadow

Research shows there are many reasons to be worried about this generation of girls amidst a culture that warps and tries to erase womanhood.

Would God Stop an Assassin’s Bullet? A Reflection on American Providentialism

Kody W. Cooper

Trump facing a crowd while standing at a podium with three small flags on it

Who can know God’s secret providential will for the U.S.? God gave Trump more time to choose to live out his life as God would want him to.

Is My Generation Capable of a Happy Death?

Lindsay Schlegel

Experiencing the graces of a strong, free, total, faithful, and fruitful marriage can—and should—prepare us for a blessed entry into eternal life.