“One striking feature about religious commitment today is how closely it aligns with conservative politics. Religiously committed Americans are very likely to vote Republican. Yet it wasn’t always that way. Alexis de Tocqueville famously attributed the strength of American religion… Read More ›
Twenty-five years ago when I first started graduate school, I used to enjoy reading First Things, the “journal of religion and public life” founded by Richard John Neuhaus. Neuhaus was a Lutheran “neoconservative” who eventually converted to Catholicism and became… Read More ›
I usually miss the big movie releases. In fact I still haven’t seen the latest Star Wars movie, The Force Keeps Waking Up, or whatever it’s called. But I did make a point to see the new documentary about Mister… Read More ›
This Easter Sunday sermon is from 1961. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that… Read More ›
This Palm Sunday sermon is from 1961. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. So Pilate entered his headquarters again and called Jesus and said to him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” Jesus answered, “Do you say this… Read More ›
This Lenten Sermon is from 1965. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Now as they went on their way, he entered a village; and a woman named Martha received him into her house. And she had… Read More ›
This Lenten Sermon is from 1956. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. At that very hour some Pharisees came, and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.” And he said… Read More ›
This Lenten devotion is from 1958. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Now the chief priests and the whole council sought false testimony against Jesus that they might put him to death, but they found none,… Read More ›
This Lenten sermon is from 1964. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. Jacob Wrestling with the Angel / Alexander Louis Leloir And Jacob was left alone; and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of… Read More ›
This Lenten sermon is from 1961. To learn more about the history behind it, click here. From that time Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and suffer many things from the elders and chief… Read More ›
H. David Baer 