How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" — it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on ...

Part of my summer reading included two recent books that created harmonic assonance as I serendipitously read them together. One was Joseph Bottum’s An Anxious Age, and the other was The Sacred ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 1:00 PM on Thursday, May 27th. Please scroll down to view. On May 27, AEI’s Daniel A. Cox welcomed a panel of experts to discuss what the ...

If some moviegoers think Hollywood has abandoned faith and spiritual themes, that’s all set for debate next week in a public series at Gonzaga University. Gonzaga’s Faith & Reason Institute hosts its ...

The Social Science Research Council has lstarted a blog called The Immanent Frame, dedicated to a dialogue and critical exchange about how secularism and religion interact in the public sphere. For ...

During his current visit to the United States, the Vatican's Archbishop Di Noia gave insights about the challenges to our faith in this secular age and why we need to answer them. “Challenges to ...

Jurgen Habermas’ text addressed to a specifically Catholic audience is one of two such important speeches of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The first, at the invitation of the Catholic ...

From the open arms of “Who am I to judge?” to the strict boundaries of the Benedict Option, the question of how to be a church community is a prominent one for Christians in our secular age. The knot ...

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