Saint Augustine lived in a pluralized environment where the coming-of-age story was that of embracing all the gods except Christ. As a young man, he set out to achieve cosmic significance through worl...  Read More

IntroductionOn February 10, 1945, C.S. Lewis read a paper to the Society of St. Alban and St. Sergius entitled “Membership.” The paper was published in Sobornost, no. 31, in June of 1945. It has since...  Read More

1.    Faith is the antecedent condition of justification (Rom. 5:1). Works are not efficacious for acquiring justification (Rom. 3:23f; 5:5).2.    Regenerate Christians will perform good works (Mt. 7:...  Read More

IntroductionThe wholesale rejection of objective guilt as a moral category is one reason the world today is easily manipulated. The enemy tries to manipulate the church by creating a narrative of perp...  Read More

IntroductionThe wider intellectual trend of the “age of light” (as Jonathan Edwards referred to the Enlightenment) was the emphasis on man’s libertarian free will—the individual’s wholly unfettered wi...  Read More

IntroductionImagine a father and his three-year-old daughter step out for a neighborhood stroll. The familiar sights and sounds hum around them. The sun, in its gentle descent, casts a warm glow upon ...  Read More

Introduction“For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, 7 always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge...  Read More

IntroductionThe Bible presents an optimistic eschatology. The Kingdom of the Lord will start small but eventually spread to the whole earth (Mk. 4:30ff). The nations are ruled by the Lord and over tim...  Read More

IntroductionProjecting the future is what scholars refer to as an epistemological pickle. Scripture solves that problem by giving a framework for looking at both history and the future that centers ar...  Read More

Matt’s RecommendationsThe Life of the Mind: On the Joys and Travails of Thinking, by Fr. James Schall.Most years I begin with a list of books I want to read over the year, and this was no exception. A...  Read More

Here it is, a list of books; the best books we’ve read in 2023, which are different from the best books published in 2023. Why give you a list of books? Because we think reading is important and we th...  Read More

IntroductionPornography is looking at images as erotic stimulants. It is the attempt to arouse a sex instinct where it was previously dulled, or excite it where it was strong already. It must always b...  Read More