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“A Sort of Refinement in Injustice”
Apropos of absolutely nothing, here is Edmund Burke on the injustice of punishing men for the crimes of their predecessors. Burke, as a Christian…
Homer, God’s Poet
“Melanchthon Mondays” continues! I had a lot of fun reading and working on this one. This week’s poem is about Homer and poetic inspiration.…
On Being a Christian in Late Modernity (Part 2: Is Modernity a Myth?)
5. Before we seek to understand modernity, it is fitting to ask whether there is anything to be understood in the first place. Is…
Martin Luther on Reparations
At the end of his book, Temporal Authority: To What Extent It Should be Obeyed, Martin Luther takes up the topic of restitution, which…
Old Gods in the New Statesman
Even a flick through a weekly leftist magazine reveals that society can't escape religion.
