Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Has an Excited Fan Club: Conservative Christian Moms nytimes.com/2025/01/28/us/… via the always great Ruth Graham

I've been struck over the last few years by how often conservative Christians mention Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸's "negative world" concept to me unprompted. Post-"vibe shift" I wanted to ask him: Are American Christians still in negative world? nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/…

This is an exceptionally insightful article by Ruth Graham that will help just about everyone who reads it better understand our politics, culture and religion in this country. nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/…

New from me, as Pope Francis marks three weeks of hospitalization. "The contours of his convalescence have taken on a familiar rhythm for anyone who has sat by the bedside of an ailing loved one, or waited anxiously for news from miles away." nytimes.com/2025/03/07/us/…

I went (back) to Detroit, where supporters of the Traditional Latin Mass wonder if a change in Rome will mean a reprieve from restrictions set for this summer. nytimes.com/2025/05/05/us/…

The Holy See has just released these photos of the Sistine Chapel, prepared for the conclave that will elect the 267th Roman Pontiff:

I went to Chicago to cover a papal conclave. No, not that one. nytimes.com/2025/05/06/us/…

The new pope is … an Ashkenazi Jew from Orlando? At least according to a University of Chicago class that held a mock conclave. “Right before the vote,” Ruth Graham reports, “he kissed his grandfather’s small silver mezuza, which he wears around his neck.” Best story I read

When Pope Leo was studying in Chicago, his classmates staged a protest urging the church to allow women to become priests. It brought a severe rebuke from a cardinal and may have even helped prompt a Vatican investigation. (w/ Ruth Graham, no paywall) nytimes.com/2025/05/15/us/…

finding it impossible to become inured to these sorts of accounts of what LLMs are doing to high school students' ability not only to read or write, but to think, or even to "have interests," as this teacher puts it

Southern Baptists just voted for the first time to call for the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges. #SBC25 nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/…

Hey all, Southern Baptists and others alike. I'm back (ish) and missed live tweeting #SBC25 but it was best for me health. That said, here are our stories from the convention and more are publishing today...

I was in Chicago this weekend for a celebration of Pope Leo XIV at "White Sox park," as Leo called it in a video message that was his first public address to an audience in the U.S. With great photos by Jamie Kelter Davis: nytimes.com/card/2025/06/1…

Imagine how mad Willa Cather must have been about this renovaton to include this footnote in a novel

Great piece of writing on a big American life. nytimes.com/2025/07/01/us/…

"Evangelicalism is a pulpit-driven movement, and John has driven the most influential pulpit in evangelical Christianity for more than a half a century." — Albert Mohler on John MacArthur, who has died at 86. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/us/…