The Risen Christ and Fallen Civilization

By |2025-04-20T20:28:00-05:00April 20th, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Easter, Gospel Reflection, History, Joseph Pearce, Timeless Essays|

With eyes wide open to the degradation we see all around us, we know that things are rotten in the modern world. Who can deny it? And yet there are more Christians in the world today than there have ever been in the past. The Church is not dead. Christendom has had a series of [...]

The Reality of the Resurrection

By |2025-04-20T20:28:54-05:00April 20th, 2025|Categories: Catholicism, Christianity, Culture, Dwight Longenecker, Easter, Gospel Reflection, Philosophy, Timeless Essays|

Too often we Christians have given in to the temptation to sanitize the crucifixion and sentimentalize the resurrection. But the resurrection was not, at first, a cause for rejoicing, but the source of fear—soul-shaking, knee-knocking, heart-pounding, earth-quaking fear. One of the good things about Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ is the gore. He [...]

Let Us Remember Lexington and Concord!

By |2025-04-18T21:09:36-05:00April 18th, 2025|Categories: American Founding, American Republic, Bradley J. Birzer, Memorial Day, Timeless Essays|

Outnumbering the Lexington militia nearly ten to one, the British easily won the skirmish. But, symbolically, they lost. For at the moment the first Lexingtonian died, the American Republic was born. British Major Pitcarne took six companies of an advance team to scout out Lexington, Massachusetts, early morning, April 19, 1775. Behind him marched nearly [...]

Good Friday: The First 12 Stations of the Cross

By |2025-04-18T07:26:25-05:00April 18th, 2025|Categories: Audio/Video, Christianity, Easter, Lent, Malcolm Guite, Poetry, Timeless Essays|

The Stations of the Cross, which form the core of my book Sounding the Seasons,  are intended to be read on Good Friday. We will read the 13th and 14th tomorrow on Holy Saturday and then on Easter Morning we will have the 15th’ resurrection’ station and also a new villanelle that I have written for [...]

Holy Week, Monday: Jesus Weeps Over Jerusalem

By |2025-04-13T17:33:43-05:00April 13th, 2025|Categories: Audio/Video, Christianity, Easter, Lent, Malcolm Guite, Malcolm Guite’s Lenten Sonnets, Poetry, Timeless Essays|

This strange Holy Week has begun in tears: tears of frustration, tears of lament, and for so many who have been cruelly bereaves, tears of grief. It’s hard to see through tears, but sometimes its the only way to see. Tears may be the turning point, the springs of renewal, and to know you have [...]

What a Constitution Can, and Can’t, Do

By |2025-04-10T16:51:41-05:00April 10th, 2025|Categories: Bruce Frohnen, Conservatism, Constitution, Federalist Papers, Politics, Timeless Essays|

A constitution has to have formal structures and requirements if it is to do its job of imposing the rule of law on people in positions of power. But for these formal structures to work, both the people and the governors they choose must recognize that they are important. I was at a conference recently [...]

Nostalgia for the Future: Antiquity & Eternity

By |2025-04-09T14:31:17-05:00April 9th, 2025|Categories: C.S. Lewis, Conservatism, England, Featured, History, Imagination, J.R.R. Tolkien, Oxford University, Time, Timeless Essays|

The experience of nostalgia is a feeling of beauty’s remoteness, but only because it is so far in the future. It is hope. I went for a long walk in Oxford the other night. The city, of course, is always enchanting, but in early summer and at night, it is so the most. When summer [...]

“April 9th”

By |2026-04-07T14:44:31-05:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: Audio/Video, Film, Stephen M. Klugewicz, Timeless Essays, War, World War II|

To every man upon this earth/ Death cometh soon or late./ And how can man die better/ Than facing fearful odds,/ For the ashes of his fathers,/ And the temples of his gods. —Thomas Babington Macaulay How much resistance is a man—and a country—obligated to muster against insurmountable odds? This is the central question of [...]

Protectionism: The Jewel in the Crown of Trumponomics

By |2025-04-04T10:45:11-05:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: Donald Trump, Economics, Joseph Pearce, Senior Contributors, Timeless Essays|

President Trump’s protection of the American economy through the implementation of protectionist principles with regard to trade is nothing less than an extension of his desire to protect America’s sovereignty. "Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength." —Donald Trump (First Inaugural Address) The world is full of ironies... and the world of politics especially. [...]

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