Part of my summer reading included two recent books that created harmonic assonance as I serendipitously read them together. One was Joseph Bottum’s An Anxious Age, and the other was The Sacred ...

How (Not) to Be Secular is what Jamie Smith calls "your hitchhiker's guide to the present" — it is both a reading guide to Charles Taylor's monumental work A Secular Age and philosophical guidance on ...

A video livestream will be available on this page starting at 1:00 PM on Thursday, May 27th. Please scroll down to view. On May 27, AEI’s Daniel A. Cox welcomed a panel of experts to discuss what the ...

The Social Science Research Council has lstarted a blog called The Immanent Frame, dedicated to a dialogue and critical exchange about how secularism and religion interact in the public sphere. For ...

If some moviegoers think Hollywood has abandoned faith and spiritual themes, that’s all set for debate next week in a public series at Gonzaga University. Gonzaga’s Faith & Reason Institute hosts its ...

During his current visit to the United States, the Vatican's Archbishop Di Noia gave insights about the challenges to our faith in this secular age and why we need to answer them. “Challenges to ...

Jurgen Habermas’ text addressed to a specifically Catholic audience is one of two such important speeches of the first decade of the twenty-first century. The first, at the invitation of the Catholic ...

From the open arms of “Who am I to judge?” to the strict boundaries of the Benedict Option, the question of how to be a church community is a prominent one for Christians in our secular age. The knot ...

Kate Moos is a journalist and writer who helped create the public media project On Being with Krista Tippett. She is now working on topics of health at American Public Media. CHRIST ACTUALLY By James ...

Root is a professor of youth ministry who has been immersing himself in the work of Charles Taylor, particularly his influential brick of a book A Secular Age. Like Robert Joustra, Alissa Wilkinson, ...

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“What is bothering me incessantly is the question—Who Christ actually is for us today?” wrote Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German pastor and theologian while being held by the Nazis during World War II.