Welcome to the holiest week of the year. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday. In my church as well as some others, the Palm Sunday reading is the Passion narrative. This year, it’s Matthew’s Gospel, sections 26:14-27:66. I’m always shaken … Continue reading
The McNulty Memo (Monthly Musings on Faith and Public Life) Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of articles looking at Christian faith in the public square. This is part of the Institute’s Center for Faith & Public … Continue reading
IFF: Your book, Standing Strong: Grove City College’s 150-Year Journey in Faith, Freedom, and the Pursuit of Excellence, is being released today. Congratulations on its publication. First, tell us what your relationship has been with the college. Smith: I graduated … Continue reading
Pope Leo XIV has been issuing frequent prayers for peace in the Middle East. That shouldn’t be a surprise. Popes pray for peace. If the presiding pope isn’t pleading for peace, then he’s failing in a basic papal duty. The … Continue reading
Technological developments continue to hit the news, captivating the human imagination with great hopes as well as unsettling concerns for the future. Grave abuse can be envisioned. Of course, artificial intelligence is often the technology that most quickly comes to … Continue reading
The McNulty Memo (Monthly Musings on Faith and Public Life) Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles looking at Christian faith in the public square. This is part of the Institute’s Center for Faith & Public … Continue reading
I’ve been in academia long enough to remember the dark days of presidential rankings by groups like Political Science Quarterly and the New York Times. These “surveys,” particularly the one done by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., made you want to … Continue reading
Hiring Gen Z workers is a challenging undertaking. A business leader in my community has a lofty and admirable vision to hire Gen Z employees, but he is ready to pull his hair out. He trains them technically, but he … Continue reading
Mott Street, New York—Walking this iconic street that runs through the Little Italy section of New York City on a recent Sunday afternoon, I was struck by an array of images and ironies, some of them beautiful, others not so. … Continue reading
In a recent Free Press article, best-selling author Ryan Holiday suggests conservatives are the new “snowflakes” because they have their own version of cancel culture. I’m not sure whether conservatives have become snowflakes, but there is no doubt that both … Continue reading
Kaley Chiles is a licensed professional counselor in Colorado who works with clients who face a variety of mental health problems: trauma, personality disorders, eating disorders, and addiction. She is employed by Deeper Stories Counseling in Colorado Springs and is … Continue reading
The McNulty Memo (Monthly Musings on Faith and Public Life) Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of articles looking at Christian faith in the public square. This is part of the Institute’s Center for Faith & Public … Continue reading
I was quite saddened late last evening to learn of the death of my friend Michael Reagan, the oldest son of Ronald Reagan. Mike was adopted by Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman (their first child was daughter Maureen) shortly after … Continue reading
Are there any Christmas films more iconic than Frank Capra’s 1946 classic, It’s a Wonderful Life? One cannot go through the month of December without at least a passing glance at this movie starring Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, the … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This address was given at the 2025 Grove City College Faculty Retreat. The famous hymn, “This Is My Father’s World,” was written about 125 years ago by a minister named Maltbie Babcock. The hymn expresses God’s creative power, … Continue reading
Last week in the auditorium of Grove City College’s Technological Learning Center, I joined a small group of students and outsiders who watched a film together in stunned silence. It’s a film they will never forget. The movie is about … Continue reading
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. In decades of teaching sociology, I have explained to students that the most important factors shaping societies are the least “glitzy.” One of these is demographics. It … Continue reading
Editor’s note: This paper is a production of the Center for Faith & Public Life. To learn more about the Center, please click here. To view, print, or share the final paper, please click here. And when a long succession … Continue reading
For thousands of years if you asked who the two greatest teachers of all time were, the answer would be Jesus and Socrates. Tragically, these celebrated instructors share another trait: they were both executed by their societies, perhaps particularly for … Continue reading
Editor’s note: A version of this article first appeared at The American Spectator. “The blood of the martyrs,” said Tertullian, “is the seed of the Church.” Charlie Kirk led a movement, a conservative movement, not a church. We all know … Continue reading
