by William Kilpatrick | Nov 15, 2022
A significant omission in an otherwise good book. The New Apologetics is a collection of 41 essays by noted Catholic apologists. It’s a valuable book for those who are interested in spreading the Christian faith in a time of secularism and relativism, as well as for...
by William Kilpatrick | Apr 18, 2022
“Deeply-held” beliefs are not always as deeply-rooted as they seem. “Is Islam too big to fail?” I raised that question ten years ago in Christianity, Islam, and Atheism. I pointed out that, like Islam, Soviet communism once had an air of inevitability...
by William Kilpatrick | Apr 5, 2022
It may do well to heed one of the more reliable lessons of history. When tyrannies are appeased, they tend to grow. That seems to be one of the more reliable lessons of history. Yet, societies continue to appease aggressors in the hope that, maybe this...
by William Kilpatrick | Dec 28, 2021
How Christmas gives meaning to life. When Samuel Huntington wrote “The Clash of Civilizations,” he was referring to the clash between Western Civilization and Islam. But there is a clash within Western Civilization itself which may determine the outcome of the...
by William Kilpatrick | Dec 22, 2021
One of the perpetual complaints against Christianity is that it is a life-denying, puritanical system. In the Victorian era, poet Algernon Swinburne referred to Christ as the “pale Galilean” from whose breath “the world has grown grey.” In our own time, films such as...
