God, Truth, and Civilization
Christians tend to think of truth as something we are commanded to reflect in our speech. The Bible supports that [...]
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09, 2024
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03, 2024
How Modern “Truth” Opposes Christianity
In "Revisiting the Idea of Truth" I discussed how Americans' abandonment of the ancient view of truth has destroyed rationality [...]
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03, 2024
Revisiting the Idea of Truth
"Truth" has always been one of the most important words in the dictionary. Unfortunately, it is greatly misunderstood today, and [...]
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05, 2023
Restoring Catholic Wisdom, Part 2
In Part 1 I argued that the Catholic Church desperately needs to renew its historic teachings, and the Bishops and [...]
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02, 2023
Dangerous Developments in American Education
The concept of academic freedom is centuries old and has been modified over time. Since 1940 it has had these [...]
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11, 2022
The Gift of Truth
We humans are wonderful creatures, yet we have significant limitations. We can be either in this location or that one, [...]
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03, 2021
The Burden of Ideas
It is fashionable to believe that ideas are quiet, ethereal things that can do no harm. “What others think won’t [...]
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07, 2020
Insights from G. K. Chesterton
Given that Gilbert Keith Chesterton (GKC) died in 1936, some readers may be inclined to ask, “How could his views [...]
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08, 2019
Why Aren’t America’s Problems Being Solved?
The United States has had a border problem for decades and both political parties have blamed each other, promised to [...]
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01, 2019
“My Truth,” “Your Truth,” THE Truth
For millennia, people naturally, almost instinctively, understood that truth is objective rather than subjective. In other words, truth is what [...]