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Recasting the stories of our shared public life together, using theology and philosophy. Smart. Fun. Challenging both the programmatic secularists and the quasi-theocrats, by lifting up a generous public religious voice for the flourishing of all Creation.
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The battle of ideas in our common life begins with confronting nihilism.
Part 3 of 4: Existential despair means hopelessness about human life having meaning and purpose. How does this lead to danger in our common life?
The two ways our common life has become ethically incoherent, and what we can do to begin to make a good and just society
Our dysfunctional politics follow a hollowed-out metaphysics of meaning making.
You need to understand the underlying belief system that underwrites the moral world of the movement that goes by the name "Make America Great Again." Why? Because eventually this underlying belief system will bring down everything you cherish.
Progressivism is in retreat, not just in the United States but around the world. Catholic Social Teaching provides a wellspring to morally thirsty people. Can secular progressives come and drink?
The moral lens on our common life is a way to address our broken politics. Our politics is broken because we are an aimless people, unable to think and talk about meaning and purpose.
How a standard practice in reporting on federal judges increases cynicism and polarization.
On the necessity of hierarchies of virtue in a time of nihilism
Separating words from their meanings is a tactic in the battle to erode the authority of goodness to constrain powerful people from acting badly.
Using our government's recent security breach on Signal and Jeffrey Goldberg's reporting on it as a point of departure, we help you understand the friend/enemy binary in our society.
WIGN Short Form helps you understand the moral dimensions of our common life, and why they are important.
What In God's Name looks at the Zelenskyy-Trump meeting through the moral lens
Today: Religious literacy to the rescue? How are we to have more open and honest conversations about public questions? Brandon and his University of Virginia students have some answers.
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