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The Sands of Omaha Beach
My wife Kate is a thirty-year veteran of the Navy, so when we decided to celebrate our wedding anniversary, Paris beckoned. And beyond the City of Light, of course, were the Normandy beaches. We met...
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NO SURRENDER: Imprisoned in a Nazi POW Camp, a Christian Soldier says, “We...
Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds’ is recognized by Yad Vashem as the only American soldier to receive the honor of “Righteous Among the Nations” for his heroism in World War II. Like German theologian...
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Pondering Hiroshima and the Use of Nuclear Weapons
This past Thursday, August 6th, marked the 75th anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb by the United States on Hiroshima, Japan. The attacks by the U.S., virtually marking the end of the war in...
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WWII’s Spiritual Legacies
Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr called Nazism the first “great revolution” against Christendom. (Arguably the French and Bolshevik Revolutions were predecessors.) For this reason, among others,...
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Veterans Day, Family Legacy, and the Meaning of Service
For all their ills, the unexpected months of 2020 spent sitting at home with canceled plans offered the extra “time” many of us have always talked about. For some, it afforded us the time to finish...
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Eisenhower and Vocation on Capitol Hill
A general rule of thumb: the more important a job is, the fewer words the job title will contain. For example, the title “Director” simply reads better than “Executive Director.” I was reminded of...
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Relativism, Pluralism, and Democracy
Postliberal Order, an online newsletter started in November 2021, is a leading voice for challenging America’s origins as a liberal democracy. It is a collaboration of leading Catholic thinkers...
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A Decades-Old Warning for Evangelical Christians is More Relevant Than Ever
This article first appeared in National Review. In the years after the Second World War, an American theologian delivered a dire forecast about the future of Protestant Christianity. Unless the...
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Oppenheimer and the False Promise of Science
The most haunting scene in Christopher Nolan’s biopic Oppenheimer occurs in a presentation hall just after the atomic bomb named “Little Boy” decimates Hiroshima. The wizard of Los Alamos, J. Robert...
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C. S. Lewis against the Darkness
Mystical Perelandra: My Lifelong Reading of C. S. Lewis and His Favorite Book, by James Como (Winged Lion Press, 172 pp., $24.99) The year 1941, a truly ominous year in the struggle between...
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