It was finally time. Ten years after my conversion to the Catholic Church, I was finally faced with the need to decide what to do with my library of Protestant books. I accumulated these books as a ...

The 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, a signal event in the history of Western civilization, will be marked on Oct. 31, 2017. A year-long commemoration began on Oct. 31, 2016, spawning ...

I recently read Joseph Bottum's marvelous book, "An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America." This is one of the most fascinating books I've read in some time. Bottum will be ...

[Editor’s Note: Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies, and Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy, at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He was born ...

PRISONER OF GRACE (301 pp.)—Joyce Cary—Harper ($3). Dickens is dead—and who cares? Dickens was an old-fashioned sentimentalist who roared with laughter at his own comic caricatures and wept buckets ...

A great metaphysical drama played out on the world’s stage. So, here's a proposition: The novel was an art form—the art form—of the modern Protestant West, and as the main strength of established ...

Two Valparaiso University professors have contributed chapters to a new book that provides a contemporary reassessment of the Pauline doctrine of justification from Protestant and Roman Catholic ...

In an essay titled “The United States of Lyncher­dom” (1901), Mark Twain, in his familiar half-serious fashion, offered up a plan to put an end to American racial violence. “Let us import American ...

I recently read Joseph Bottum’s marvelous book, “An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America.” This is one of the most fascinating books I’ve read in some time. Bottum will be ...