This book review of Greg Foster’s book “Joy for the World: How Christianity Lost Its Cultural Influence and Can Begin Rebuilding It” was originally posted at The Weekly Standard.   Love Thy Neighbor Being a good citizen and good Christian at the same time February 16, 2015, Vol. 20, No. 22 If liberal and secular-minded people […]

Originally posted at Patheos.   Under Locke and Key Joseph Loconte is associate professor of history at The King’s College in New York City.  His latest book, God, Locke, and Liberty: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in the West, framed this discussion.  David George Moore who blogs at www.twocities.org conducted the interview. Moore: Give us a quick overview of your […]

Originally posted at the Huffington Post.   Conscience and the Christmas Truce of 1914 “In the throes of one of the most destructive and dehumanizing wars in world history, something extraordinary occurred, never to be repeated. It happened on Christmas Eve, Dec. 24, 1914. The “Great War” had been raging, inconclusively, for five ferocious months. […]

Originally posted at Standpoint.   Sixty years ago, C.S. Lewis delivered a hotly contested lecture at Cambridge University in which he identified “the Great Divide” that had seized the Western mind — and transformed it into something unrecognisable to earlier generations. On November 29, 1954, in his inaugural lecture upon assuming the Chair of Medieval and […]

Dr. Loconte joined a television debate on President Obama’s foreign policy this Thursday. The program, which appears on the RT network, is called “CrossTalk

Dr. Loconte spoke about his new book, “God and the Great War: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis and the Crisis of Faith in the Modern Age,” at this Trinity Forum event.

The President’s weakness, deeply rooted in failed past administrations, is a surreal disaster for America and the world.

For two extraordinary authors and friends, J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, WWI deepened their moral and spiritual convictions.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle called it “the most terrible August in the history of the world.” He was lamenting the opening weeks of August 1914, the beginning of the Great War.

Let’s be realistic: do most people see any connection between historic Christianity and the world around them? What stands out instead is a collective amnesia about the spiritual foundations of modern life.