Religion - Quillette (Page 3)

The Narrative and Its Discontents

This mindset is nigh-incomprehensible to people of The Narrative who are used to being guided by a single source of truth enforced by social consensus.

Jacob Falkovich

16 Feb 2021 · 9 min read

Carl Th. Dreyer's 'Day of Wrath' and the Power of the Punished

It is difficult to believe in heaven, but it is also difficult not to believe in a heaven.

Matthew Wardour

3 Feb 2021 · 7 min read

China and the Question of Taiwan

In modern-day China, nationalism is at its strongest when dealing with the idea—almost an article of religious faith—that the independent island nation of Taiwan is in fact a Chinese state and must be unified with the mainland as soon as possible.

Aaron Sarin

2 Feb 2021 · 12 min read

God and the Pandemic

For many established religious institutions, the pandemic threatens to exacerbate an ongoing retreat from organized religion.

Joel Kotkin

23 Dec 2020 · 10 min read

Circling Back to My Grandfather’s Judaism, Seventy Years Later

North American Jews needed time to absorb the scope and originality of the horror they had been spared.

Barbara Kay

21 Dec 2020 · 14 min read

My White Privilege Didn’t Save Me. But God Did

Because of my experiences, and the newly fashionable denial of reality being promoted by progressives, I find myself sitting with the politically homeless.

Edie Wyatt

7 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

My Journey from Born Again Christian to the Church of Woke—And Halfway Back Again

How could we even conceive of something like social justice without the moral framework offered by religion?

Will Johnson

6 Dec 2020 · 11 min read

Enlightenment Literature as Foreign Aid

Brian Stewart

4 Dec 2020 · 5 min read

Secular Modernity under Theocratic Assault

Brian Stewart

11 Nov 2020 · 7 min read

The Importance of Blasphemy

Brian Stewart

21 Oct 2020 · 5 min read

The Hagia Sophia Should Remain a Beacon to All

The Hagia Sophia was the brainchild of a unique figure in history.

Lars Brownworth

15 Jul 2020 · 8 min read

Reason, Faith, and the Struggle for Western Civilization—A Review

Gregg finishes the book by concluding that the success of Western civilisation rests on the “four theses” of creation, freedom, justice, and faith.

Adam Wakeling

30 Apr 2020 · 13 min read

Pell’s Pyrrhic Victory

Pell became a public target onto which a deep well of private resentment—much of which was wholly irrelevant to his own conduct—could be directed when the opportunity arose.

RJ Smith

7 Apr 2020 · 5 min read

Convictions and Doubts: The Case of Cardinal Pell

Several factors cast doubt on the accuracy and/or veracity of the complainant’s account.

RJ Smith

10 Feb 2020 · 14 min read

Confucius Got It Right: Giving in to ‘Bias’ Is Part of Living an Ethical Life

No one wants to be “victim” of someone else’s biases, but almost everyone is comforted by the idea that one’s brother, mother, or uncle is heavily biased in their favor.

Stephen T. Asma

1 Feb 2020 · 5 min read