“The greatest thing a man can do, the thing that brings him closest to God, is to preserve the marvels that exist, given that he cannot create them.” —Simone Weil, Venice Saved (1943)

Born in Jonestown, Pennsylvania, in 1933, and dying 83 years later in Washington, D.C., the theologian Michael Novak lived a 20th-century life. The author of numerous books and countless

Many years ago, on an autumn day in my hometown of Istanbul, I received an email from a friend who lived in the American Midwest and frequented a mainline Protestant church. After kind

Helen Rhee has done a great service with her slim volume Wealth and Poverty in Early Christianity. This collection of primary sources from the Church Fathers’ teachings on money, lending

Fusionism—once the intellectual core of American conservatism—today faces a profound crisis. Initially conceived as a harmonious union of liberty and virtue, designed to reconcile free

We owe Ariel Helfer a good deal of gratitude for his latest effort, a translation of Plato’s Letters that brings to the American audience, for the first time perhaps, the only things Plato

“Love of men cannot be bought by cash-payment; and without love men cannot endure to be together.” —Thomas Carlyle The harsh fluorescent lights bore down on the tops of our heads as we

If the well-examined life is worth living, then C.S. Lewis’s must have been extraordinarily worth living, because few lives have been quite so well and thoroughly examined. Even in the midst

Religious revivals have been a part of the American historical landscape even before the republic existed. Most were linked and intertwined with other social movements happening at the time