In the UK, our National Health Service was once described by a former Chancellor of the Exchequer as being the nearest thing we have to a national religion. It certainly gets a lot of

“When anyone hears the word of the kingdom, and does not understand it, then the wicked one comes and snatches away what was sown in his heart” (St. Matthew 13:19). No nation has been as

The notion that there is a crisis in academia, and the ensuing desperate calls for reform, are as old as institutional education itself. From Plato’s Republic, to Rousseau’s Emile, down to

A Christian missionary working in Turkey, J.K. Marsden, described the roundup of Armenians in the town of Merzifon in the summer of 1915: They were in groups of four with their arms tied

In The Idol of Our Age: How the Religion of Humanity Subverts Christianity (Encounter Books, 2018), Daniel J. Mahoney confronts a central heresy of our age, the “remarkably truncated view of

Oberlin University is paying the price of political correctness. The university complied with a court order to post a $36 million bond after an Ohio court ruled against the university in a

I often notice that whenever we talk about faith and business, the discussion is mostly about businessmen and their faith. But what about women who seek to live a life of holiness in

Figures like the Jewish scholar Philo of Alexandria (25 B.C.–A.D. 50) moved comfortably between the Hellenic and Jewish worlds. A member of a priestly family, Philo was also a Roman citizen

In 2016, students at Yale University called on the university to “decolonize” a reading list of canonical poets – people such as Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, and so on – saying the

In June 2019, Democratic presidential candidate and current Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a plan for eliminating $1.6 trillion dollars in student loans currently held by about 45

The current student loan crisis is a perfect, yet dismal example of policy gone wrong. It is right and good to desire the best life for our children, and for some that includes a traditional

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