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There is much to be learned by post-secular scholars in the West.

Information about events from the Orthodox Christian Studies Center.

To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age by Bishop Robert Barron with John L. Allen Jr. Image Books (New York, 2017). 260 pp., $27.

Archbishop Welby talks to Madeleine Davies about reform and the pandemic

To Light a Fire on the Earth: Proclaiming the Gospel in a Secular Age by Bishop Robert Barron with John L. Allen Jr. Image Books (New York, 2017). 260 pp., $27.

Illustration by Abro Prime Minister Imran Khan frequently uses the term ‘Islamophobia’ while commenting on the relationship between European governments and their Muslim citizens. Khan has often been accused of lamenting the treatment meted out to Muslims in Europe, but remaining conspicuously silent about cases of religious discrimination in his own country. Then there is also the case of Khan not uttering a single word about the Chinese government’s apparently atrocious treatment of th...

Defending Marriage in the Pope Francis Era 05/03/2021 at 2:52 PM Posted by Kevin Edward White THE DECISIVE BATTLE By Richard A. Spinello, New Oxford Review, May 2021 On December 26, 1957, Lucia dos Santos, one of the three child visionaries from Fatima, gave her final public interview. The other two visionaries, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, had died shortly after Mary appeared to them in 1917. Sr. Lucia lived until 2005 and received additional Marian apparitions in the Carmel of Coimbra o...

21.49 Despite the ways in which the coronavirus pandemic has confused our concept of time and curtailed a host of plans and activities, nearly all of us—and this is certainly true of pastors—feel as if we cannot keep up with the constant motion of the modern world. Life is fast. Maybe you don’t have to “go” to work, but now you can replace that commute time with more work—at your house! And maybe you don’t need to take your kids to school, but you can replace that time with writin...

The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. A New Phase of Civilization Human civilization has staggered and lunged through many phases and sub-phases. Stone Age Dark Ages Information Age Now, anthropologists have hatched a new label, the Anthropocene Epoch, for the latest period when mushrooming humanity and fossil fuel burning ha...

Illustration by Abro Analysis emerging from various academic platforms in Europe, the US, Turkey and India in the last five years or so, suggests that the world has entered a ‘post-secular age.’ This is how they understand the growing assertion of religion in the public sphere in these secular countries. But critics of this thesis fear that it is conceiving secularism in its most simplistic form. Secularism has evolved in a highly complex manner, as demonstrated by two of its most thorough ...