Benjamin J. Dueholm
Under Elon Musk’s authority
Doing church on social media is not like standing in the public square. It’s more like putting ourselves under a form of sovereignty.
At Tara Isabella Burton’s fictional boarding school, the hunger for transcendence gets dark
A tale of beauty, religion, and how easy it is to exploit them
Mike Duncan’s Revolutions podcast shows how history repeats itself
His ongoing exploration of political instability feels excruciatingly relevant.
The Revolutions podcast makes history accessible through storytelling
“Podcasting offers a unique medium for improving a person's historical understanding while they're doing the dishes.”
Wombs and tombs (Pentecost B) (Ezekiel 37:1-14; Romans 8:22-27)
God’s Spirit before birth and after death
How the apostles select Matthias (Easter 7B) (Acts 1:15-17, 21-26)
It’s an interesting contrast with the ways leadership and oversight have been handled since.
Eyes of the heart (Ascension) (Ephesians 1:15-23)
If we can be said to have them, we should at least want them to be opened.
What kind of justice did Derek Chauvin’s trial achieve?
The verdict of a court is not the final verdict of a society.
May 23, Pentecost B (Acts 2:1–21)
Maybe we should see Pentecost as a celebration of land and labor in which the Holy Spirt is made known.
May 16, Easter 7B (John 17:6–19)
Jesus’ high priestly prayer is a call to a new kind of knowing and loving.
May 13, Ascension (Acts 1:1-11; Luke 24:44-53)
What we see reminds us of what we miss, and vice versa.
Live not by a false sense of persecution
Rod Dreher’s Live Not By Lies is a damning testament to a religion without vision.
Why The Crown is so fascinating to a world in perpetual crisis
As the series drifts, it mimics the drift of the monarchy itself—and of other institutions.
What Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination doesn’t mean
Don’t bother looking for the political significance of the Supreme Court nominee’s Catholicism. There isn’t any.
The psychological wage of liberalism was laid bare at the DNC
If democracy is a moral abstraction instead of an embodied struggle, it won’t survive.
Stuck in an imperial system that has outlived its promise
Ross Douthat wonders what will get us beyond decadence.
What's wrong with cancel culture?
A suggested agenda for the signers of the open letter to Harper's on free speech
The coronavirus lockdown was doomed before the mass protests began
Its demise came from the same system that killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.
The additional violence of George Floyd’s autopsy report
It’s getting harder to believe in the vindication of history.
Time waits for no one
I went to see the Rolling Stones play again—and revisited an adolescent fantasy.