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  • A Jewel on the Shenandoah: Something Beautiful for God

    A Jewel on the Shenandoah: Something Beautiful for God4

    From the new church, which sits in the quiet countryside on this soft spring afternoon, the bells ring. A bagpiper, a cardinal, a bishop, a platoon of priests, and several altar servers slowly walk up the hill from the old church to the new and enter through the double doors, over which is inscribed, “HAEC

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  • Real and Artificial Intelligence

    Real and Artificial Intelligence3

    Right now, just as I’m writing these words, I’m coming off two hours of revelations that have left me reeling. The phrase mind-blowing is a gross understatement of what has shaken my world to the core. One cause of this interior earthquake is a poem, “What It Means to Be an American.” Here are the

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  • Fight or Flight? Some Thoughts for Easter

    Fight or Flight? Some Thoughts for Easter5

    The long Gospel readings in my church on Palm Sunday offer an unflattering portrait of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. Judas sells out his master for 30 pieces of silver and leaves the Last Supper to put his betrayal into action. Later that evening in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus asks three of his followers

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  • New Study Shows American Religious Divides

    New Study Shows American Religious Divides4

    America is a diverse country. In most cities, you can find people from nearly every ethnic or racial background imaginable. This is becoming the case in rural areas as well. But America is host to a considerable amount of religious diversity as well. And while race relations are often the subject of considerable discussion, understanding

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  • Jonathan Edwards and Living a Transformed Life

    Jonathan Edwards and Living a Transformed Life1

    If I made a list of all the theologians I’ve seen caricaturized, unjustifiably dismissed, or just plain misunderstood, Jonathan Edwards would be near the top. He is perhaps best known for “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” a hellfire-and-brimstone sermon that depicted all humanity suspended above the realm of the dead, completely at

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  • How the Left Normalizes Persecution

    How the Left Normalizes Persecution1

    It was recently revealed that the FBI targeted traditional Catholics attending Latin Mass. A New York Post article reported: “An eight-page dossier leaked by former FBI agent Kyle Seraphin earlier this month indicated that the FBI’s Richmond, Va., office, at the behest of the Department of Justice, was going after ‘radical traditionalist’ Catholics and their

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