Guest Contributor

Science and the Political Divide – Dr. Daniel Sarewitz, Nature

Of Beggars and Men – Theodore Dalrymple, Liberty Law Blog

Fiscal Cliff and the Fifth Commandment – Collin Garbarino, On the Square / First Things

Asteroids And ‘Other’ Problems – Rod Dreher, T. I. C.

An Interview with Russell Kirk – Kirk, Mulligan & Schock, T. I. C.

What to Expect in Obama’s Second Term – George Marlin, The Catholic Thing

E-Zone Unemployment Reaches Record High – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

Bringing Marx into the Abortion Debate – Russell Nieli, Public Discourse

The Real Housewives of Downton Abbey – Kate McGuire, Altcatholicah

Great Bodies of Principle and Conviction – Russell Kirk, T. I. C.

Evans-Manningfest On Mall Killers – Rod Dreher, T. A. Cn.

Welfare Recipients Cash Out At Bars, Strip Clubs – LoCo

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A World Without Grand Bargains – Ross Douthat, The New York Times

Rhetoric and Ranting – Michael Jordan, T. I. C.

Technology, Time and Space – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

2008 Obama Campaign; Fine From FEC – LoCo

A Defense of George Bailey – Greg Forster, First Thoughts / First Things

Reading in the New Year – Randall Smith, The Catholic Thing

Deficits Forever? – Ross Douthat, The New York Times

Learned Hand’s Letters – Michael Ramsey, Originalism Blog

Obamacare To Drive Up Health Costs – LoCo

Why Hagel Was Picked – David Brooks, The New York Times

American Un-Exceptionalism – Fr. James V. Schall S. J., The Catholic Thing

Georgia Mom Shoots Home Intruder – LoCo

“Lincoln’s” Secrets and Lies? – Noah Millman, T. A. Cn.

HSBC, Hobby Lobby & Religious Freedom – Bruce Frohnen, T. I. C.

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Plot to Attack Coptic Christmas Foiled by Egyptian Authorities – Pravmir (OR)

Unrealistic Expectations and Depression – Orthodoxy and Recovery (OX)

Blessed Maria Baouardy, the Little Arab and Lily of Palestine – MotC (RC)

Life in a Coptic Catholic Village – Jessica Jones, CNEWA (EC)

Sanctify Me and the Waters, O Saviour – Gabriel’s Message (OX)

Christmas Message of Patriarch Kirill – Pravmir (OX)

Footage of Bl. Nicholas Charnetsky – British Pathe (EC)

St. Gregory Palamas: Homily on St. John the Baptist – Mystagogy (OX)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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A Psychiatrist Examines The Anti-Gun Mentality – Sarah Thompson M. D.

Permanent Punitive Segregation – Robert Blecker, City Journal

Rationalization Of The Week – Rod Dreher, T. A. Cn.

Socrates to Be Re-Tried in Front of Judge Richard Posner – FedSoc Blog

The Blindness of Tax Purists – R. R. Reno, First Thoughts / First Things

Government Approved Light Bulbs Cause Skin Cancer – LoCo

Chemerinsky Urges Compulsory Public Schooling – Marc DeGirolami, Mirror of Justice

It’s a Wonderful Strife – Greg Forster, Public Discourse

N. Y. T. on Saving Catholic Education – Christopher White, First Thoughts / First Things

Check Out These Charts – Lonely Conservative

Not Enforcing Some Provisions of a Bill – Mike Rappaport, Liberty Law Blog

Renewing Western Culture – Robert Woods, T. I. C.

Feinstein’s Gun Control Alchemy – Nicholas Johnson, Liberty Law Blog

Teaching in an Age of Ideology: Eric Voegelin – Lee Trapanier, T. I. C.

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Let’s Rethink Everything – Michael S. Greve, Liberty Law Blog

Living Conservatism – Edward Ericson, Jr., T. I. C.

Internet Vigilantism and Steubenville – Rod Dreher, T. A. Cn.

 The Trillion Dollar Student Loan Bailout – LoCo

Debating the Terms of the American Founding – Ken Masugi, Liberty Law Blog

Legalizing Drugs – R. R. Reno, First Thoughts / First Things

The Damage of the Sexual Revolution Appalls Me – A. N. Wilson, Mail Online

The Liberated Soul of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Andrew Haines, Ethika Politika

Liberal Constitutionalism and Us – Richard Reinsch, Liberty Law Blog

A Patron Saint for the Idiot Box? -Stephen Masty, T. I. C.

Nature Reports: Malthusians Wrong Again – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

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“Agni Parthene” – Ukrainian Catholic Studite Brethren of the Univ Lavra (EC)

The Manifestation of God – J. Andrew, Prayer of St. Ephrem (EC)

“The Waters Beheld You and They Trembled” – Christ the Bridegroom (EC)

Is the Jesus Prayer Vain Repetition? – Fear Not Little Flock (EC)

“. . . Which is Eternal” – Kaiserswest (EC)

Bloggers, Behave! – Visibilium (OX)

Mary, the Mother of God, Example of Faith – Archimandrite J. Azar, TGB (EC)

Theophany and the Gates of Hades – Glory to God For All Things (OX)

The First Form of Character Building – Momma Renee, Claytonopolis (EC)

The World is Crucified To Me, and I to the World – Josh Braid, East to West (EC)

St. Ephrem: Glory to Him Who Came and Restored the World – EtH (OX)

The Civil War’s Threat to Damascus – Diana Darke, The Guardian

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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Empires Rise and Empires Fall – Dr. Robert Owens, LoCo

The Senate Can Change the Filibuster Rule – Mike Rappaport, Liberty Law Blog

The Bureaucrat. . .Over Your Doctor’s Shoulder – Wes. J. Smith, Human Exceptionalism

Stockton’s Moral Deficit – Steven Greenhut, City Journal

The Catholic Church, a Hate Group? – Austin Ruse, First Thoughts / First Things

Why I Am a Conservative – Dennis Gallagher, T. I. C.

Lead And Criminality – Rod Dreher, T. A. Cn.

On The Closing of the American Mind – Neo-Neocon

The Founders’ Finance, and Ours – Michael Greve, Liberty Law Blog

An Internet of Things . . . That Hate Us – Stewart Baker, Volokh

You Are Mistaken (About Hayek) – Kevin Vallier, Bleeding Heart Libertarians

Union Civil War Reveals Blue Dilemma – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

Conservatives Have All The Money And Clout? – LoCo

The Federal Idea – Wilfred McClay, T. I. C.

Towards A Conservative Vernacular – Pete Spiliakos, PoMoCon / First Things

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Syrian Christians Attacked Ahead of Presidential Speech – S. J. Bos, WNews

Going Under the Knife: Prayers Needed – Ad-Orientem (OX)

“It Is Enough For Me To Stand Here At Your Feet” – Gabriel’s Message (OX)

Secrets Your Pastor Can’t Share in a Sermon – Good Guys Wear Black (OX)

How a Maronite Nun Takes First Vows – Byzantine, Texas (OX)

Culture and Ethnicity in the Church in the U.S. – Blog of the Dormition (EC)

Elder Sergei of Vanves on Prayer – Orthodox Way of Life (OX)

Mantra Madness – Ric Ballard, Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal (EC)

“When We Speak of Christ, We Must Start With Christ” – Fr. N. Kim, JtO (OX)

Hippolytus: Discourse on the Holy Theophany – Mystagogy (OX)

Christ the Bridegroom Monastery – Ramblings of a Byz Catholic (EC)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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Syrian Conflict Could Worsen Exodus – Catholic News Agency

St. Theophan the Recluse and Facebook – J. Andrew, Prayer of St. Ephrem (EC)

This Christmas, Egypt’s Coptic Christians Are Asking For Respect – Globe & Mail

Inspiration: Bl. Kuriakos Elias OCD – Theresa, My Desert Heart (RC)

St. John of Kronstadt on Despair – Pravmir (OX)

Miracles of St. Nikephoros the Leper – John Sanidopolous, Mystagogy (OX)

Amid Instability in Egypt, Coptic Christians Flee to U.S. – B. Wallace, NPR

Qambel Maran: Syriac Chants From South India – M. T. Antony, NSC Network

Fr. Seraphim Rose: Forming the Soul: Spirit, Soul and Body – Pravmir (OX)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

Born That Way? – Joshua Gonnerman, On the Square / First Things

Russell Kirk’s Challenge to Liberalism – Bradley Birzer, Imaginative Conservative

Humans “Exceptional” As “Justifying Animal” – Wesley J. Smith, Human Exceptionalism

Is The Nuclear Family The Problem? – Rod Dreher, American Conservative

What “Incontrovertible” Really Means – Leslie Eastman, Legal Insurrection

The State of American Liberal Education – Peter Lawler, Imaginative Conservative

State Contraceptive Mandates – Joseph Knippenberg, First Thoughts / First Things

‘Easy Platitudes’ on Race, Crime – Rod Dreher, American Conservative

Neighboring States Poach California Jobs – Walter Mead, Via Meadia

Geithner To Resign Before Debt Ceiling Fight – Lonely Conservative

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Syrian Children Struggle in Refugee Camps – Amy Mina, CNN

What 2013 Looks Like From a Syrian Refugee Camp – S. Al-Jijakli, LatitudeNews

Bishops Visit Syrian Refugees – Christian Today

Syrian Refugee Families Short on Options – The Washington Post

Mideast Christians Persecuted – Yossi Shain, YNetNews.com

Work and the Meaningful Life Pt. 1 – Fr. Gregory Jensen, GGWB (OX)

Mother Thekla, Contradiction and Paradox – Glory to God For All Things (OX)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

Russian Catholic Ordinations – Shawn Tribe, New Liturgical Movement (EC)

“Then Nothing Can Shake Us” – Kaiserswest (EC)

Food For Thought From St. Basil – Priest’s Wife, Fear Not Little Flock (EC)

St. Peter of Damascus on Hope – Gabriels Message (OX)

St. Nikolai Velimrovic: Letter 86 on Confession – A Sinner (OX)

Orthodox in Dixie: The Movie – Fr John Whiteford’s News, Comm., Refl. (OX)

Assyrian Church’s Theology of Icons – Fr. Ephraim Alkhas, East Meets East (OX)

Ethiopian Orthodoxy – Father David Bird, Monks and Mermaids (RC)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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