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When Mother Teresa Came to Washington
It was utterly ludicrous, stepping out of a chauffeured White House limousine to go hear Mother Teresa. Even then I recognized that, as a twenty-something working at the locus of political power. Her...
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John With Jesus: From Passover to the Garden of Gethsemane
Today’s offering in our Timeless Essay series affords our readers the opportunity to join Barbara Elliott, as she portrays the events of the Last Supper to Jesus’ prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane...
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The Difference Between Fellow Travelers and Friends
The rich soil of faith, family, and friends is where community is formed, where relationships flourish, where roots go down that nourish us. This is where those of us who are rooted in Christ seek to...
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Faith and the American Founding
An increasingly heated debate is taking place in America to redefine the role of faith in the public square. Faith has been a part of the American experience since the earliest days of the founding. As...
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Faith, Civil Society, and the American Founding
We have increasingly placed our faith in the power of government to provide solutions for human misery. What was once a strong level of responsibility and autonomy at the city, county, and state level...
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Renewing America’s Soul: Faith and Civil Society
American culture has an opportunity now for renewal through its people of faith. We are being called to care for one another with love. We are being called to live out our virtue in service. The...
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Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture
Please enjoy Barbara Elliott’s presentation on “Catholic Imagination and Contemporary Culture,” delivered at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology. DSPT Fellow – Barbara Elliott’s...
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What Must Leaders Know to Wield the “Five Swords of Imagination”?
How much folly could have been avoided if our contemporary leaders truly understood the deeper patrimony of ordered liberty? To maintain ordered liberty, our leaders need to gird up and learn to wield...
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Celestial Courtroom: America at the Judgment of the Nations
Through unnamed sources involved in the proceedings, these notes were smuggled out of the Celestial Courtroom, where the ongoing evaluation of the Nations takes place in Committee Hearings in...
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“Damsels in Distress”: A Cultural Anti-Depressant
If you’re feeling depressed about the culture around you, Dr. Elliott has a prescription for you: one full dose of Whit Stillman’s 2011 film, Damsels in Distress, followed by tap dancing. I am...
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“Anna Karenina”: Aristocratic Life Is All a Stage
Anna Karenina is a lush, beautiful, stylized film about succumbing to sexual flame and the complicated relationships of infidelity that tear a beautiful woman apart. The themes of love, lust, and...
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Remembering Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was truly a great president who led our nation through a critical period in our history, demonstrating tenacity, courage and faith. He faced down an enemy and never blinked. He inspired...
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Why Was Nietzsche Perplexed by the Saint?
In Beyond Good and Evil, with a brilliance that terrifies, Nietzsche slashes his way through philosophers, intellectuals, religious and political leaders, not so much to refute them as to dismiss and...
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Reweaving the Fabric of Our Culture With Love
Today in America, people of faith are binding up the unraveled fabric of civil society in tangible ways. We hold the threads individually, but when they are bound together, we can reweave a picture of...
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