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“This is the heart of the clash between revolutionaries and counterrevolutionaries: The revolutionaries desire to create a world severed from inheritance and faith, insisting on a secular anthropology—‘man made in the image of man’ rather than in the image of God.”
Remembering the French Counterrevolution
by Kristen Ziccarelli
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“Christians of the past were willing to be exiled, even die, over strictly maintaining orthodoxy regarding who Jesus Christ is. Perhaps our own willingness to respectfully maintain that line can help the LDS Church to understand that belief in the Triune God is positively non-negotiable to the Christian faith.”
Are Latter-day Saints Christians?
Jeremy M. Christiansen
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“One of the few things Catholics, Protestants, and Orthodox agree on is that Latter-day Saints are not Christians. But why? After all, Latter-day Saints claim to believe that Jesus is the Son of God, the only path to salvation. They claim to believe that he is divine and that we must follow his teachings.”
Are Latter-day Saints Christians?
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Are Latter-day Saints Christians?
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“The women who flourish are not those who win the girlboss game, perfect the tradwife aesthetic, or embrace Marxism’s spiritual statism. They are those who are rooted in genuine religious community, mentored by wise older women, and protected by faithful men.” @emlwaters
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Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife
Emma Waters
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“Like Burke, I began with the recognition that neither girlboss feminism nor the online tradwife movement has the answer women are looking for. But where Burke turned to Noam Chomsky, and ultimately Marxism, I turned to the Bible.” @emlwaters
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Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife
Emma Waters
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Neither Girlboss nor Tradwife
Emma Waters
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“We are not raw material in the hands of those who build the machines. We are persons. We are made in the image of God. We will not surrender our principles to the technology. The technology will answer to our principles.”
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The American Covenant’s Answer to AI
Josh Hawley on artificial intelligence, human dignity, and the moral foundations of American self-government.
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“In deciding how to govern this technology, we are not merely writing policy. We are renewing—or surrendering—the moral basis of our life together.”
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The American Covenant’s Answer to AI
Josh Hawley on artificial intelligence, human dignity, and the moral foundations of American self-government.
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The American Covenant’s Answer to AI
Josh Hawley on artificial intelligence, human dignity, and the moral foundations of American self-government.
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In Caro Claire Burke’s “Yesteryear,” her “protagonist may be dressed in tradwife clothing, but her novel reveals far more about the spiritual lostness of secular women than about the religious women she set out to critique.”
Me in @firstthingsmag
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Please join us on August 7–8, 2026, for two days of intellectual enrichment and good company as we explore the topic of beauty. The retreat will feature a keynote lecture, a panel, and seminar discussions led by instructors from Eastern University’s Templeton Honors College.
The full retreat program will be held at the Union League Club of New York.
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“Davis’s Offensive Christianity imputes supernatural importance to both humdrum and spectacular manliness. It is thus paramount that men exercise the manliness muscle, lest it atrophy and die. Inoffensive Christianity equates such a death with piety. But a doctrinally healthy church understands that men must be allowed to flourish in their manliness for the corporate body to truly imitate Christ.”
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The Return of Strong Christian Men
by Scott Yenor
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The Return of Strong Christian Men
by Scott Yenor
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In our most recent podcast episode, @matthewschmitz joins R. R. Reno on The Editor’s Desk to talk about his recent essay, “Our Strange Catholic Moment” from the June/July 2026 issue of the magazine.
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I wrote a few thoughts on the LDS/Christian question over at @firstthingsmag
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New in @firstthingsmag, @scottyenor reviews Offensive Christianity:
“Davis’s roadmap for discipling young men may just issue in renewal—of both church and civilization.”
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“By conforming himself in prayer to the crucified Lord, Jimmy Lai is living his unjust punishment as an occasion of grace.”
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The Strength of Jimmy Lai and the Weakness of Emperor Xi
by George Weigel
George Weigel on Jimmy Lai’s witness in prison and why his case remains a challenge for Xi Jinping.
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