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Reweaving the Fabric of Our Culture With Love
Today in America, people of faith are binding up the unraveled fabric of civil society in tangible ways. We hold the threads individually, but when they are bound together, we can reweave a picture of...
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Please enjoy Barbara Elliott’s presentation on “Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture,” delivered at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. DSPT Fellow – Barbara Elliott’s...
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Arthur C. Brooks’“Who Really Cares”
Who really cares? People who mistrust big government give more of their money and time as volunteers to take care of the poor themselves. Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate...
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The Spirituality of Compassion: Mother Teresa & Henri Nouwen
Street saints are people who have heard the call and obeyed. They are very different kinds of people in very different places, but they have one thing in common: They have heard the call to go, and...
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What Must Leaders Know to Wield the “Five Swords of Imagination”?
How much folly could have been avoided if our contemporary leaders truly understood the deeper patrimony of ordered liberty? To maintain ordered liberty, our leaders need to gird up and learn to wield...
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Renewing America’s Soul: Faith and Civil Society
American culture has an opportunity now for renewal through its people of faith. We are being called to care for one another with love. We are being called to live out our virtue in service. The...
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Faith, Civil Society, & the American Founding
We have increasingly placed our faith in the power of government to provide solutions for human misery. What was once a strong level of responsibility and autonomy at the city, county, and state level...
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Faith and the American Founding
An increasingly heated debate is taking place in America to redefine the role of faith in the public square. Faith has been a part of the American experience since the earliest days of the founding. As...
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Jousting, D-Day, Reagan, & the New Barbarians
This morning I had one of those startling moments when time folds back on itself, as I remembered a convergence of events that all took place in this sunny week of June, albeit in different years....
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“Les Misérables”: A Rousing Tale for Slumbering Souls
If you are allergic to emotion, this may not be the film for you. But if your heart yearns for good to triumph over evil, for beauty to emerge from squalor, and for the vindication of strong heroes who...
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The Difference Between Fellow Travelers & Friends
The rich soil of faith, family, and friends is where community is formed, where relationships flourish, where roots go down that nourish us. This is where those of us who are rooted in Christ seek to...
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The Divine Conspiracy of Dallas Willard
Authentic discipleship transforms all aspects of life, every day, at work, at home, in all relationships. My discipleship to Jesus is, within clearly definable limits, not a matter of what I do, but of...
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The Power of Beauty
Art has the twin functions of reflecting a culture and shaping it. The problem that contemporary artists face is a difficult one: how to express meaning to a world that has become culturally...
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Russell Kirk: Planting Seeds for Generations to Come
Russell and Annette Kirk with the author Driving across the snowy landscape of Michigan the day after Christmas in 1973, I was somewhat apprehensive. I had been invited to take part in the first...
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This Mortal Coil: Poems of DNA
Eric Forsbergh writes with insight, compassion, and humor, as he describes in well-honed vignettes the human condition, anchored in our DNA: love, identity, sex, families, babies, war, and death, as...
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Conservative Credo
Conservatism seeks the Truth that has emerged over time, drawing from the deep wellsprings of human experience, and builds anew on foundations that have withstood the tests of time. It fosters order...
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Faith and Redeeming the Time
If the people who profess belief in God were to actually live with intentionality—in their business decisions, in their classrooms, in their television broadcasts and movie scripts, in their community...
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Barbara J. Elliott in Memoriam
Barbara J. Elliott Wife, mother, author, professor, social entrepreneur, Catholic evangelist, and faithful follower of Jesus Christ, Barbara J. Elliott illuminated the lives of thousands of people...
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Encounter With Christ
Fr. David & Fr. Bruce Noble I had never been in a hospice before, although several people had encouraged me to go and serve there. It just didn’t seem like my calling. Why go to serve the dying,...
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A Friend Remembered
John Rocha with Winston & Barbara Elliott On Saturday evening, I went to sleep reflecting on a text I had received from Winston Elliott about the film The Emperor’s Club. On Sunday morning, as I...
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