Guest Contributor

Seeking a Genderless God in Germany – Tristyn Bloom, First Things/First Thoughts

Edmund Burke on Manners – Ian Crowe, TIC

The Curse Of Upselling – Rod Dreher

Two Cautionary Tales of Gun Control – Joyce Lee Malcom, The Wall Street Journal

Barbarism and History – Mark Malvasi, TIC

Rahm Emanuel’s Children are Protected by Armed Guard – Anne Sorock, Le•gal In•s. . .

Income Inequality In DC – LoCo

What I Learned in the Poverty War – Peter Cove, City Journal

‘Heretical’ Monks & Higher Mathematics – Rod Dreher

De Tocqueville: The End of Democracy in America – Joel Engel, Le•gal In•sur•rec•tion

EdBOX: Classrooms and the Republic – John Willson, TIC

Mark O’Brien’s Triumph Had Nothing To Do With Sex – Wesley J. Smith, Hmn Excptnlsm

Hagel Gets a Sensitivity Litmus Test From the Neocon Press – Paul Gottfried, SotU

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Marian Moise – “Akathist to St. Nektarios the Wonderworker” (OX)

Catholic-Oriental Orthodox Forum Launches Joint Statements – Bp. Angaelos

Why Americans Need an All-English Liturgy – Journey to Orthodoxy (OX)

Fr. Seraphim Rose: Lives of a Saint – Michael Balchunas, PCM Online

The Transfiguration of Place – Fr. Andrew Damick, La Nouvelle Theologie (OX)

Apple’s Icons and Windows Into Heaven: Iconography in 21st Century – FirTh

Accolades Continue to Roll In For Film “Archimandrite” – Byz, TX (OX)

Penal Substitutionary Atonement and Eastern Theology Pt. 1 – R. Hall, RtR (EC)

War and Theology: In the Name of the Name – The Economist

Sin As Illness – Abbot Tryphon, The Morning Offering (OX)

Finding Pity in Sinners and Praying For Enemies – Mystagogy (OX)

Bishop Borys Gudziak Comes Home – St. Elias Today! (EC)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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Social Security Was $47.8 Billion In The Red – LoCo

Fighting the Leftist Domination of Education – Neo-Neocon

Hurricane Sandy: Enemy of Fordism? – Via Meadia

Oliver Sacks, Grumpy Reader – Alan Jacobs

Ghosts and Miracles – David Mills, First Things/First Thoughts

Feds and Media Jump to David Gregory’s Defense – Legal Insurrection

Jean Edward Smith, Eisenhower, and Stimulus – Pete Spiliakos, PoMoCon

Where Have All The Fathers Gone? – LoCo

Alexander Hamilton: A Martyr for Liberty? – Peter McNamara, Liberty Law Blog

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Foundation and Krugman – Via Meadia

So What Are We Going to Do About It? – Volokh, Volokh

Officials Canned Over Benghazi Still On Payroll – Lonely Conservative

What About This Mass Murderer? – Neo-Neocon

Altogether Fitting and Proper – Ryan L. Cole, City Journal

All That Said… – Alan Jacobs

Cold Weather Across Europe, Asia Kills Hundreds – Via Meadia

Concern-Trolling Newspaper Outs Gun Owners – Rod Dreher

The Left’s Epistemological Closure – Peter Wehner, Commentary

Blue California Takes a Flyer on Green Legislation – Via Meadia

It’s a Wonderful Life: Commie Propaganda? – Donald McClarey, TAC

It’s a Destructive Life – Patrick Daneen, On the Square

Man and Religion in the Third Millenium – Thomas Storck, Ethika Politika

Second Amendment Symposium – Daniel McCarthy, SotU

Unlocking Your Conservative Imagination – Stephen Masty, TIC

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A Christian Prayer For Peace in Syria – J. Sterling, S. Abdelaziz, H. Yan, CNN

Memory – Abbot Tryphon, The Morning Offering (OX)

The End of Religion – Ric Ballard, Eastern Catholic Spiritual Renewal (EC)

St. Augustine of Hippo on the Incarnation – Fr. Kimel, Eclectic Orthodoxy (OX)

Christ is Born!  Glorify Him! – Priest’s Wife, Fear Not Little Flock (EC)

Ontology and Ethics – Again and Again (OX)

Commemoration of the Flight Into Egypt – Handmaid Leah, CiiOM (OX)

On the Jesus Prayer – Fr. James Coles, Orthodox Prayer (OX)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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Giving CARB Credit for California’s Death Spiral – Leslie Eastman, Legal Insurrection

Time to Separate Scientism and State – Wesley J. Smith, NRO

Why “Celebrate” Christmas—and the Epiphany? – Bruce Frohnen, TIC

A New Solution to the Pension Crisis – Via Meadia

A Christmas Thought About Guns – Alan Jacobs

The Legacy of C. S. Lewis – James E. Person, Jr., TIC

What Turned Jaron Lanier Against the Web? – Ron Rosenbaum, Smithsonian

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions at Fifty – Matthew Reese, New Atlantis

David Brooks’ Sidney Award and Other Reactions – Ron Unz, SotU

Greenberg on “Borking” Before Bork – Jonathan Adler, Volokh

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Stabilization Won’t Save Us – Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The New York Times

Where Was God? – Mark T. Mitchell, Front Porch Republic

Adam Lanza And Angry Geek Loners – Rod Dreher

Higher Education and Class – Alan Jacobs

Christmas and the Scandal of Particularity – Brett Bertucio, First Things/On the Square

Natalie Wood and Purity at Midnight Mass – Andrew Seely, TIC

Learning From Reagan Part III – Pete Spiliakos, PoMoCon

The Paperback Quest for Joy – Laura Vanderkam, City Journal

Government by the Intelligent Part – Rick Garnett, Mirror of Justice

The Twelve Days of Christmas – Russell Kirk, TIC

Has Fiction Lost Its Faith? – Paul Elie, The New York Times

Homesick in the Cosmos – C. R. Wiley, TIC

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The Nativity Homily of St. John Chrysostom – Rob Hall, Road to Rome (EC)

Men Have Forgotten God: Alexander Solzhenitsyn – The Voice CitW (OX)

Fr. Gheorges Calciu-Dumitreasa – Gabriel’s Message (OX)

Clothed In Our Mortal Nature – Sr. Cecilia, Christ the Bridegroom (EC)

Taste the Presence of Christ – Abbot Tryphon, The Morning Offering (OX)

Joy Clears the Skies – Fr. Ted’s Blog (OX)

Met. Tikhon to Be Enthroned Jan. 27, 2013 – Pravmir (OX)

Nativity Message 2012 – Fr. Peter Preble (OX)

Silence: A Vision of Eternal Rest – Monk Damascene, Death to the World (OX)

It Loses Something In Translation – Anastasia Theodoridis, Kyrie Eleison! (OX)

Merging the Byzantine and the Anglo-American – WuStI (EC)

Melkite Motivation – Eric Sammons, The Divine Life (RC)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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The Higher Ed Bubble Is Very, Very Real – Via Meadia

The Rush to Impose Reason on Horror – Jonah Goldberg, NRO

Teen Vampire Sex Books – Rod Dreher

Judge Orders Calpers to Get in Line – Via Meadia

Holidays and Hobbits – Kate Pitrone, PoMoCon

The Massacre of the Innocents – Mark Steyn, NRO

A Good Introduction to Political Philosophy – Lee Cheek, TIC

Jung’s Therapeutic Gnosticism – David Bentley Hart, First Things

On Christianity and Fantasy – Alan Jacobs

What About the Culture of Narcissism? – David Masciotra, FPR

How to Be a Non-Liberal, Anti-Socialist Conservative – Roger Scruton, TIC

Lessons From Reagan Part II: We Are The 47% – Pete Spiliakos, PoMoCon

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“Bartholomew Is Seeking to Reinvigorate Dialogue With Roman Catholics – CtC

Christmas Letter of Patriarch Gregorios III – Byz. Cath. Church in America (EC)

Be Ashamed When You Sin, Not When You Repent – Ramblings of a Byz. Cath. (EC)

Fr. Georges Massouh on Patriarch John X – Notes on Arab Orthodoxy (OX)

Those Whom God Chooses – Fr. J. A. Peck, Good Guys Wear Black (OX)

Another Prayer Rule! – Phillip Rolfes, The Master Beadsman (EC)

Mayan Apocalypse Day – Byzantine Ramblings (EC)

‘Tis the Season – Orthodoxy and Recovery (OX)

Legend:

EC = Eastern Rite Catholic

OX = Orthodox Church

OR = Oriental Church (Coptics, etc.)

RC = Latin Rite Catholic

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The Great Swindle – Roger Scruton, Aeon

On Robert Bork on Law, Culture, and Public Morality – Robert George, MoJ

On the Right to Own a Gun – Matt Zwolinski, BHL

Can We Talk (about Guns)? – Jonathan Adler, Volokh

Our Contemptible Media – Paul Zummo, TAC

Newtown Answers – NRO Symposium

Lewis Compared Modern Science to Demonology – Greg Forster, First Thoughts

The Roots of Mass Murder – Charles Krauthammer, WaPo

Newtown’s Unanswerable Questions – Theodore Dalrymple, City Journal

Let’s Reason Together About Marriage – Ryan Anderson, First Thoughts

If We Go Over Fiscal Cliff, Blame Obama – Lonely Conservative

NRA Proposes More Policemen – Lonely Conservative

NRA: Blame Video Games for Newtown – Alana Goodman, Commentary

Controlling the Discussion on Gun Control – Andrew Hains, Ethika Politika

Changing Not Only Laws, But Hearts – Greg Sisk, Mirror of Justice

Main Street U.S.A.: The Problem of Evil – William Murchison, TIC

Goodbye, Judge Bork—Goodbye, My Friend – Michael Novak, On the Square

New York Democrats Look To Ram Through Stricter Gun Control – Lonely Conservative

Recollecting Laughter: On the Cultural Value of Satire – Daniel McInerny, TIC

RE: The Ugly Politics of Piers Morgan – John Steele Gordon, Commentary

In the Wake of Sandy Hook, Cooler Heads Must Prevail – Brian Jacoutot, Legal Insurrection

The Original Originalist – Adam Freedman, City Journal

Is There a Second Amendment Right to Own a Machine Gun? – TAC

Task Force Warns of NY Budget Meltdown – Via Meadia

Carrie Nation at the New Yorker – Ross Douthat, NYT

Evil is Real Because Human Exceptionalism is Real – Wesley Smith, NRO

The War on the Young Meets the Fiscal Cliff – Via Meadia