In the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, Christians confess they believe “one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.” It is an important phrase to ...

On August 28, 2023, I sat in the arena in the PLC at Grove City College. The room was filled ...

This article was originally featured in Cogitare’s 2023 Fall Edition. Over the course of this past summer, I lived in ...

This article was originally featured in Cogitare’s 2023 Fall Edition.  As Christians in these dark final days, we find ourselves ...

“’Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?’” Jesus said ...

 If you drive by a modern church built after the 1990s, you will most likely see a playground for the ...

What is the impact of Easter? This may seem like an unusual question to ask, but it is worth asking. ...

Over the summer, I, like many college students, worked at a business in my hometown. During that time, I noticed ...

“Ring out ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears       (If ye have power to touch our senses so) ...

In 1817, the English poet Lord Byron wrote home to his friend Thomas Moore that Southern Europe was “pestilential with ...

Dear Fellow Scholars, Over the last few years, a discussion has been rising over the role of experts in society. ...

In G. K. Chesterton’s Ballad of the White Horse, King Alfred fights the pagan Danes in the battle of Ethandune, ...

Conservative culture is in a malaise. This isn’t because Disney released another woke remake, or because another set of children’s ...

Not only the blood of the fallen stains the stripes of America’s flag. The tears of the living also bleach ...

“But that’s just what they want you to think….” – a common phrase that many  people hear or use on ...

This article was originally featured in Cogitare’s 2023 Fall edition.  “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you ...

What does the recent popularity of podcasts say about us? I don’t mean individual podcasts, whether they be spiritual, scientific, ...

This article was originally featured in Cogitare's 2023 Fall edition. Time and time again this semester, a question has occurred ...

I am, and always will be, a die-hard Nancy Drew fanatic. There’s just something about a 100-page mystery novel with ...

A hidden door, bound in leather rather than carved of wood, opens into the lost lands of Atlantis and Elysium, ...

Those of the church of Christ ought to live in an explicitly Christian way, but in the realm of entertainment ...

In 1980, famed astronomer Carl Sagan released ‘Cosmos,’ a book designed to guide the reader through the entwined history of ...

On August 27, 2023, mere days before the start of the school year in France, French Minister of Education Gabriel ...

This article was originally featured in Cogitare's Summer 2023 print edition. During my entire four years as a  student at ...

I am someone who will defend the continued relevance of classical texts until I am blue in the face, but ...

Why do the nations rage and the kingdoms plot in vain? So speaks the psalmist, wrestling with the cultural and ...

I never cried on a plane before July 29, 2023. I’ve done a great deal of traveling throughout college, much ...

In the context of human history, the amount of information that bombards people today is inconceivable. It is said that ...

Alexandra DeSanctis Marr is a writer for National Review, fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and author, with ...

There is nothing quite so disappointing as reading original source material. By this I do not mean to say that ...

This piece was originally featured in Cogitare's 2023 Print Edition. Last spring, I came home - after being away almost ...

This piece was originally featured in Cogitare's 2023 Spring Print Edition. Setting modern music in perspective with classical music allows ...

Dr. Joseph Loconte, a historian, writer, and visiting Professor at Grove City, joins Sarah Soltis to discuss Tolkien and Lewis, ...

This piece was originally featured in Cogitare's Spring 2023 Print Edition. A lot can be said about a person based ...

“By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it ...

In an article published by Cogitare last November, Daniel Stepke exhorted us to cultivate the virtue of intellectual gentleness, which ...

Who do you live with? In other words, who do you think, perceive, and act with? The common name for those ...

This piece was originally featured in Cogitare's Spring 2023 Print Edition. Within the past couple of decades, a new form ...

Some of the best advice I was ever given I first heard as a senior in high school, when I ...

A few weeks ago, an article detailed how a Christian preK-12 school in Vermont withdrew its girls’ basketball team from ...

No matter where you are, the sunrise starts the day.  Your personal workday or schoolday might begin much earlier or ...

During my first week at GCC, I witnessed a strange event at lunch in Hicks Cafeteria. The room was resounding ...

For one of my classes recently, I read a series of research articles about the physical inactivity of Americans and ...

I’m a conservative Christian who’s spent the vast majority of his life in conservative Christian circles. As such, I’ve heard ...

An article published last fall in this publication praises the Young Women for America movement as a healthy, holy, and ...

Brick and bitumen. Steel and glass. Man really doesn’t change, does he? The year is 2023 A.D. In nearly every ...

As I sit to write this article on an almost spring February morning, I am recovering from an assault of ...

Explaining Greek life to an outsider of Grove City College often results in confused looks and warranted skepticism. Underage drinking, ...

Many Christians support and lead movements toward localism, agrarian and craft work, and traditional cultural revival, which Fyodor Dostoevsky helps ...

Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro and Sarah Soltis discuss the Liberating Arts Project, which “gathers faculty from a variety of institutions to ...

One of my favorite poems by John Keats is entitled, To One Who Has Been Long in City Pent. It ...

Recent critics of Grove City College – furthering the incessant “Save GCC from CRT” diatribes – have called into question ...

This piece was originally featured in Cogitare’s Fall 2022 Print Edition School work is important. Classes are important. Tuition is ...

Strong women. Smart policy. Sound theology.  Young Women for America (YWA) is a unique organization—one that focuses on Christian faith ...

Agrarianism is making a comeback both on the Christian right and in broader culture. As a seemingly unstoppable wave of ...

This piece was originally featured in Cogitare's Fall 2022 Print Edition For fall break, I visited the home of a ...

“Plastic. Plastic everywhere. Screens. Screens everywhere. Artificial white light everywhere. The ghost of Ben Franklin has now been incarnated in ...

This past Sunday, I had the joy and privilege of becoming an associate member at a small local church near ...

It is a natural ramification of living as a human to grow distinctly fond of artful things. Drama and music ...

Grace Reilly is the President of Grove City College's YWA Chapter. This interview was originally featured in Cogitare's Fall 2022 ...

To begin, I would like to say that I do not want to tell anyone who to vote for. I ...

Last weekend, Lux Mea hosted its 12th annual Intercollegiate Colloquium for the Liberal Arts. The topic for this year was ...

It is honorable to consider art as vital for the nurturing of the soul and not to confuse it with ...

On Winthrop and Leading with Love A common attitude in America was well represented by Martha Plimpton when she said ...

This article is in dialogue with Geneva O'Bannon's "Let them be Women." I always wanted to be like my mom.  ...

Picture your grandmother’s handwriting. Whether you’ve conjured up an image of a grocery list, a hand-copied recipe, or a recent ...

Those of us who were raised in the classical education sphere no doubt learned about Just War Theory during our ...

In June 2022, the U.S. witnessed a 40 year high in inflation—a rate of 9.1%. This manifested as a 38% ...

Man must work. This is required of him for the demands of justice and love. He must garner the necessities ...

It’s no secret that all political groups have echo chamber problems. Just recently, a group of former staffers at the ...

On a Sunday afternoon when I was seven or eight years old, my dad took my older brother and me ...

How should Christians think about social inequality? In American politics, the issues of what equality is and how it ought ...

Known to its friends as “freedom’s college,” for many years Grove City College maintained a balance between both its self-proclaimed ...

Queen Elizabeth II wore many hats – one of the most notable being head of England’s Church. She spoke publicly ...

Toxic polarization is compelling pastors to consider resigning.

For young men who frequent any social media platform, the name Andrew Tate likely sounds familiar. The 35-year-old former professional ...

Many so-called conservatives know a certain blue bird well. As Edmund Healey noted in January in these pages, “despite what ...

On October 26th, 2020, non-profit Christian publisher Crossway released The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive ...

In February 2022, I passed a year in journalism, and what a year it was. Coming out of a global ...

A Christian culture, Senior says, is pretty simple; “Christian culture is the cultivation of saints.” Culture, then, is conducive to ...

It is the day of Jesus’ resurrection. A tearful Mary Magdalene has just embraced Him, after realizing who he is. ...

The self-help industry is a dominant cultural force in many people’s lives and has recently seen expedited growth resulting from ...

Assassinations, intrigue, cults, and the clergy all find a home in detective fiction. The birthplace of the detective in literature ...

People believe Vladimir Putin should not have invaded Ukraine. A recent poll revealed that only 6 percent of U.S. adults ...

At 1:55 AM in the early morning of February 24th, 2022, Vladimir Putin declared war on the sovereign nation of ...

Somewhere, right now, there’s a 80-year old man, who spent his career of 40 years in coal mines, and is ...

Christmas, according to our modern age, is supposed to be a time of delight and jolliness. Families bake gingerbread and ...

The acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse on November 19th marked the end of a trial that had dominated mainstream media and ...

Christians today lament plummeting church membership, anti-Biblical indoctrination in public schools, and political threats to religious freedom. However, such opposition ...

Everyone writes. Schoolteachers, doctors, accountants, engineers, etc… all have to write. They write by responding to emails, fulfilling work order ...

In 1787, as the Philadelphia Convention was ending, a delegate from Virginia named George Mason told the convention, “Are we ...

The Supreme Court took on yet another abortion case on Monday, Nov. 1st, choosing to expedite the oral arguments of ...

Glory be to the Father and The Son and The Holy Spirit.Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on ...

If you live in a neighborhood anything like the typical suburban area in which I grew up, you have likely ...

Not long ago, I had a conversation in which (as I am want to do), I recommended a book to ...

It is no secret that President Joseph Biden, through his actions in his various offices throughout his long political career ...

What lies at the heart of a liberal arts education?  Surely it is a commitment to seeking and meditating upon ...

The Devil and Karl Marx:  Communism’s Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration By Paul Kengor TAN Books, 488 pages, ...

Dave Chappelle took the stage in The Closer for a moment of reflection in a refreshing, yet unorthodox blend of ...

English literature as an academic discipline is in danger. Recent reports show that in the United States the number of ...

In a speech given to the 168 delegates at the Virginia Ratifying Convention on June 6, 1788, James Madison stated, ...

Hiking up my dorm’s stairs last Sunday evening after several days at home, I sighed. “I feel kind of…” “Homeless?” ...

Since March of 2020, Covid-19 has had a number of negative effects on American life, one of which has been ...

One of them had barely lit the fire when the one sitting farthest away spoke up, breaking the silence. “What ...

If you have been unfortunate enough to pay close attention to America’s “culture wars” over the past few years, you ...

The Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving is not what most people would consider a mental colossus. The man made headlines for ...

Progressive Christians often rail against conservatives as xenophobes who oppose illegal immigration to maintain their white, evangelical power. These open-border, ...

Upstanding fellows in Ancient Greece welcomed any uncomely stranger out of respect for the divine. Homer’s Odyssey opens with this ...

“Our job is to offer them refuge. Why should they trust us? The world is burning.”   Thus spoke Sandra Oh ...

On September 18, 1787, James McHenry, one of the Maryland delegates during the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, wrote about an ...

Around this same time last year, a French feminist author by the name of Pauline Harmange was fielding angry calls ...

Welcome! It seems some introductions are in order. We are Cogitare Magazine, a student publication sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies ...

Grief is a strange phenomenon. It turns everything on its head, dismantles our semblance of control, threatens the way we ...

I was a fan of Elizabeth Corey before she was famous and have admired her for many years both personally ...

It is dusk as I peddle down the streets of my small, coastal Maine village, enjoying the ambiance of people ...

“God … may be found only on the other side of the total self-searching experience of a zealous life. There ...

College wouldn’t be college if it wasn’t temporary. We all come to this place with a portion of four years ...

Several years ago, my family attended a church with a wonderful, tightly knit community.  However, one Sunday morning, the worship ...

I was recently asked the question: what form of technology has had a detrimental impact on your life? And while ...

Over Christmas break, my family stayed at a kind neighbor's house while we awaited the building of our new home. ...

Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another ...

“Art is a kind of steadfast thought operating through matter towards some purpose, and thought is a kind of motion ...

An epidemic of anxiety. A glut of information. A plague of “morbid self-introspection.” The complaints of Victorian anti-modernists and medievalists ...

Wait, isn’t that a Catholic thing? I would suggest that such an objection is a poor one, for the Catholics ...

Does Watchmaking Deserve a Place Among the Arts?  Originally published on the author's substack: https://remontoirblog.substack.com/p/does-watchmaking-deserve-a-place  Ask me what my favorite ...

For my sixth birthday, my mom took me to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History for the evening. It was ...

This summer, I worked abroad with an Italian archaeological team, eating lunches and dinners together, even living in the same ...