When many people think of the meaning of Christ’s resurrection, they think of eternal life with God in heaven, free from all pain. And that is right and just. But as Our Sunday Visitor columnist Kenneth Craycraft argues, the Resurrection has a
The “doldrums” are a windless area of the world’s oceans that impeded and slowed ships before the rise of motor driven seagoing vessels. It’s where we get a term for being emotionally stalled, morally adrift or spiritually mired. Just as sailors once
According to the prevailing view in American law and politics, the family has no natural state or structure. Rather, like all other human relationships, the family is mere convention; it is a human invention that is as open to alteration or change
On March 6, Governor Kay Ivey of Alabama signed into law Senate Bill 159 in response to a controversial ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court that classified frozen embryos from in vitro fertilization processes as children under the State's Wrongful Death of
In January, Pope Francis condemned surrogacy, and in February, the Alabama Supreme Court declared that frozen embryos are children. Together, these events thrust the Church’s condemnation of IVF and surrogacy into the public eye. Our Sunday Visitor columnist Kenneth Craycraft explains the
In an attempt to avoid being “Christian nationalists,” many people subordinate Christian faith to political liberalism. Ironically, this is similar to what actual Christian nationalists do. In either case, one’s moral life is informed by a political theory, to which Christian faith
Among the ads at this year’s Super Bowl was one from the organization He Gets Us, the latest in a series of TV and social media videos that have appeared over the past few years. The ad features a series of still
From the standpoint of an unsympathetic Protestant or non-Christian observer, Mardi Gras partying one day and Ash Wednesday penance the next are a sign of contradiction, if not even hypocrisy. How can we reconcile raucous revelry Tuesday night and humble repentance Wednesday
On this 75th anniversary of its Broadway debut, "Death of a Salesman" is well worth revisiting (or reading for the first time). It is a tragedy of self-deception. But it is a tragedy that reminds us Christians that transparency, repentance, and truthfulness
As we begin Black History Month, Kenneth Craycraft gives three reasons why the month’s observation is helpful for our national conscience. First, it is an opportunity for us to remember the unspeakable cruelty of chattel slavery. Second, Black History Month is a