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The online journal of The Witherspoon Institute. R. J. Snell, Editor-in-Chief. @alex_e_davis, Managing Editor. @RyanTAnd, Founding Editor. thepublicdiscourse.com Princeton, NJ Joined January 2010

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Saving Sex: Love and Responsibility Revisited thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/09/98832/

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98781/ “How can Christianity become a positive force in politics without being exploited politically and, conversely, without usurping the political sphere?”

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98585/ Vocation, rightly understood, involves a response to a call from a holy and loving God.

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/09/98818/ For those among us whose parents have forsaken us, who abandon us to the hand of the bazaar or strangers alike: The Lord taketh us up, for His mercy endureth forever. And may we each choose what is real, no matter the cost,

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98569/ Parenting in awareness of God’s presence reveals another crucial truth as well: it allows mothers and fathers to accept the limits they face in controlling the outcome of parenting.

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98764/ The tight bonds in traditional societies attach and oblige men to a variety of people and institutions outside of themselves, turning them outward toward others and toward the society around them.

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Slaying the Centaur of “the Enlightenment” thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/09/98802/

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Just wondering if there’s anyone in Nigeria, who would like to study the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church with me. I need an accountability partner(s). Reading Edward Feser’s articles on immigration on @PublicDiscourse and I’m awed at the richness of the Church’s doctrine

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98754/ Christians need to realize that there is no scapegoat on this earth that can be sacrificed to bring us a peaceful end to the evils we encounter.

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98552/ There is continuity from how a person handles the most rudimentary parts of life to being in a successful marriage, so much so that in the early stages of a relationship you need ask yourself no other question than, “Could I see myself with this person?”

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98552/ Very few things in life look like a good story as they are happening. The best stories are retrospective. We can’t go looking for one; we have to busy ourselves about living in one.

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Religion, the Basis of Culture thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/09/98792/

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98545/ Friends inspire our love, loyalty, and enjoyment, and should not be expected to behave in certain ways or exhibit useful skills.

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98732/ Teachers are doing the best that they can. At the same time, I want to be clear that the conflict thesis is about as out of step with our current historical knowledge as scientific creationism is with contemporary biology.

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98719/ Some today think religion and politics should be more intertwined. Alexis de Tocqueville would have thought just the opposite.

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98533/ Equating your career with your vocation makes your job a fundamental part of your identity in a way that leaves you vulnerable to experiencing a loss of purpose should that job be one day taken away.

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Democracy without Religion Is Dead: Part II thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98781/

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thepublicdiscourse.com/2025/08/98709/ Whether Beethoven ought to be understood as a Catholic composer is no longer the difficult question, but how and when he is Catholic in his music will, I suspect, frame many discussions to come.