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Angels and Kingdoms ([link removed])

by Ephraim Radner

From the June/July issue: The angels have instructions: “Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted and needy” (Ps. 82:3). Knowing what we do about these “sons of God”—a lustful and greedy lot, as we learn in Genesis 6—it comes as no surprise that their supervision of gentile justice proves wanting.
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Automating the Human Mind ([link removed])

by Michael Toscano

Professors rationalize their welcoming of AI by citing its near-certain use in a professional setting. Words will no longer be the work of human beings, professors have concluded, so it would be disadvantageous for their students to waste their time practicing to read and write with rigor independent of the LLMs.
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An Open Letter to the Bishops of Latin America ([link removed])

by Clodovis M. Boff

If the Church enters social struggles without being guided and inspired by a Christ-centered faith, she will do nothing more than what any NGO would do. Worse still, over time she will offer a shallow social commitment that, without the leaven of a living faith, eventually becomes perverted.
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Is Just War Theory Still Relevant? ([link removed])

by Richard Cassleman

Do we still believe justice through force is possible today? If so, just war survives, though it may need to navigate modern means of warfare by turning back to its foundations. If not, all types of war are likely illicit, even those waged out of self-defense.
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The Genius of American Christianity ([link removed])

by Peter J. Leithart

Thanks to revivalism, Americans donate a larger portion of their money to charities than any other people on the planet. Without revivalistic Christianity, there’d be no anti-abortion movement, no Moral Majority or populist New Right, no Civil Rights Movement or BLM or Antifa for that matter.
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