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Serve God, Love Me, and Mend: To Date Well, Flourish First 

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Individuals who want to marry must choose from options that lack the spontaneity and spark many hope for: singles groups, dating apps, speed dating. One is left wondering whether a bad script is preferable to no script at all. And well-intentioned people—mostly married—offer all kinds of conflicting advice about how to date to find a spouse. I aim to tackle these seeming contradictions in order to show how each can be true and helpful for the Tough Mudder that is twenty-first-century dating.
Friendship

The Particularity of Friendship 

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We make friends with particular people in particular circumstances, and for this reason we should not allow ourselves to be distracted by what is remote and abstract. We should delight in and give thanks for those we can know, love, and enjoy in reality. 
career

For a Thriving Career, Focus on Vocation First 

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Our duties of care to others place limitations and constraints on our choice of career. But these constraints are, in fact, the path to real freedom. 
Justice Sotomayor

Changing the Subject: Hidden Assumptions in Justice Sotomayor’s Defense of Gender Transition Medicine  

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Justice Sotomayor’s analysis depends on many assumptions that she does not articulate or defend. This lack of clarity leads to unnecessary confusion and inconsistency. In more ways than one, Justice Sotomayor is changing the subject.  
Christian Reformed Church in North America

Living in a Divided House? 

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The aftershocks of the sexual revolution continue to play out not only on the legal and political planes but in churches, schools, and charities. For American Protestants in particular, debates about what counts as authority and what faithfulness means for human sexuality are as unavoidable as they are important.  
Calvary

The Natural Law Is Not Enough. The Natural Law Is All We Have. 

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We must rely on natural law, even as we confess that it cannot bear the full weight of moral resolution. Why? The natural law is not enough, yet the natural law is all we have as denizens of a fractured age. 
Marx

A Guide to the Horrified and Mystified 

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“Reason and revelation,” “God’s creation and the natural order of things,” “the biological nature of human beings,” and “Natural Law”: these are Mahoney’s lodestars and the criteria by which he judges not just ideology’s falsehood but its destructive evil. 
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How to Start Another Unconstitutional War 

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Why should we be faithful constitutionalists on matters of war powers in the first place (as opposed to being hard-headed “pragmatists”)? Why should we care about the Constitution, about this violation of it, by this president, at this time?   
The Bookshelf

The Bookshelf: Don’t Immanentize the Eschaton! 

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Voegelin was capable of striking turns of phrase and bold arguments. It is easy to see what was attractive about his work for a Christian conservative.
large family

Israel’s Future-Oriented Natalism: A Q&A with Daniel Kane 

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There’s this very deep part of the Jewish religious tradition that understands children to be a blessing. I think Jews have deeply internalized that. 
PEPFAR

We Can’t Fix the Deficit by Taking Medicine from the Poorest of the Poor 

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Over the past few decades, we have seen incredible progress in the fight against HIV, hunger, and other infectious diseases. We could choose to either accelerate that progress and demonstrate American greatness, or to shrink back from the moral responsibilities that love places on us. 
university classroom

Only the Humanities Can Save the University from AI  

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As AI disrupts the dominant credentialing model in higher education, only a return to the university’s formative mission—rooted in the pursuit of truth—can secure its future.  
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(Toward) Three Cheers for the Supreme Court  

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Here’s to the good ruling protecting children from pornography. 
Pope Leo XIV

Centered in Christ: Reflections on Pope Leo’s First 100 Days 

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All we have seen and heard indicates that the crucified and risen Christ who sends the Spirit is the very heart of Leo’s spirituality and theology.
assisted suicide

Britain’s Sentimental Suicide 

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The English have lost their ancient grit, and with it, their decency. 
SCOTUS

All Litigation is Death Penalty Litigation 

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If the Court wants to stand apart from the toxic politics of the moment, it needs to focus on where the law leads, not where the DHS flight is headed.  
American politics

Political Ignorance and the New Tragedy of the Commons 

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When it comes to politics, everyone seems fully convinced that they have genuine knowledge. Many even maintain a dogmatic confidence about their political views. What explains this? 
Same-sex marriage

New Vindication for the Regnerus Same-Sex Parenting Study 

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Suppressing disfavored ideas from consideration has serious consequences for the possibility of scientifically informed public discourse in our day.
medical aid in dying

Demanding Murder; Needing Heroes

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I do not know what it is like to be bedridden for years. I hope I never will. I also wish I never knew what it meant to live through the disappointments, fears, abandonments, or heartbreaks I’ve already endured. But I am glad nobody suggested to me that those pains were too much to bear.
hate

On the Pleasure of Hate 

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Much ink has been spilled on charting the roots and causes of hate and its diverse manifestations. Yet in all these intellectual analyses and sociological investigations, one cause has largely escaped notice: the simple pleasure of hate.  
egg freezing

The Egg Freezing Industry’s False Promises 

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The problem of egg freezing cannot be solved by safer methods or better policies. Beyond the physical and financial costs, there is a more insidious myth at work—one that speaks to our deepest assumptions about time, control, and what gives life meaning.
Catholic Church in Jerusalem

The Church, the Jews, and the Development of Doctrine 

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What is settled is that the Jewish people are beloved by God, that Catholics are spiritual Semites as they are grafted into Israel for their very existence, and that Catholics are committed to listening and learning from the Jewish people as they enjoy God’s covenantal fidelity and love. 
US port

Rethinking the Tariffs Regime  

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Economic freedom is inseparable from the ability to engage in economic transactions without government interference, even if that interference is predicated on a desire to eliminate external trade barriers. 

From the Archives: The Pursuit of Happiness Rightly Understood

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The right to the pursuit of happiness is coherent only in the full theological context of the Declaration of Independence.