From the category archives:

Hunter Baker

End Times for Christian America?

May 26, 2009

Today we’re happy to reprint a piece on “End Times for Christian America” by HBU’s own Hunter Baker, an assistant professor of government, who is the author of the forthcoming The End of Secularism which is being published by Crossway Books this August. Christian America is busy dying again. If you believe some partisan historians, [...]

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Items of Interest: The One Who Made the World

February 23, 2009

While there is much in the world to love, it is best loved in relation to the One who made it. The world is beautiful, but much fairer is the One who fashioned it. The world is glorious, but more delightful is the One by whom the world was established. Therefore, let us labor as [...]

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Items of Interest: Take Up the Cross

February 11, 2009

Turn, rather, to these teachings, my very dear friend: take up your cross and follow the Lord. For, when I noticed that you were being slowed down in your divine purpose by your preoccupation with domestic cares, I felt that you were being carried and dragged by your cross rather than that you were carrying [...]

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The Tantrum

January 31, 2009

Struck with grief you were, though only four, The day your mother cut her mermaid hair And stood, a stranger, smiling at the door. They frowned, tsk-tsked your willful, cruel despair, When you slunk beneath the long piano strings And sobbed until your lungs hiccupped for air, Unbribable with curses, cake, playthings. You mourned a [...]

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Items of Interest: The Battered Heart

January 29, 2009

When you have to listen to abuse, that means you are being buffeted by the wind. When your anger is aroused, you are being tossed by the waves. So when the winds blow and the waves mount high, the boat is in danger, your heart is imperilled, your heart is taking a battering. On hearing [...]

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Father Neuhaus on Anne Rice and The Road to Cana

January 27, 2009

Typically, we would allow an author to respond in the event of a letter or comment from a reader – however, with the passing of Father Neuhaus, we will just allow his comment (published in his final edition of The Public Square) on Christopher Badeaux’s review in our Summer issue to stand, until such time [...]

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