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  [Jonathon Van Maren is a public speaker, writer, and pro-life activist. The following article was published on October 18, 2022, on the website of First Things (www.firstthings.com) and is reprinted with the magazine’s permission.] On October 7, Dr. Louis Roy of the Quebec... Read More →

  Dear John Isaiah, Your mother and I named you after the saint, John the Baptist, whose birth we celebrated the day we lost you. Your middle name is the prophet whose words gave us so much solace at Mass that day: “The Lord called me from birth, from my mother’s womb he... Read More →

  He came to a midweek theology class I offered but not to Sunday church. He was drinking the truths about God like the young adult he was, totally innocent of Christianity. Creation, the cross, the resurrection, the importance of the body: All of this was news to him.... Read More →

    Motherhood is denigrated in our culture, sometimes even within the church. This stifles our witness on behalf of the unborn and the women who are their mothers. Something similar could be said of the denigration and abdication of fatherhood. But that is for another... Read More →

  Some years ago, twenty-three to be exact—I’m sure because it was the occasion of my wedding day—I received this note: “Hope everything breaks your way.” It was from one of the most generous people I’ve ever known, a man who committed much of his life to splashing money... Read More →

  The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade sparked celebration and joy throughout the pro-life community. It also unleashed protest and anger in many sectors of the pro-abortion community. “Pro-choice” outbursts of fury in the streets and in the media were... Read More →

  With the overturn of Roe and its emphasis on viability, “life begins at conception” has a chance of graduating from opinion to law in the form of fetal personhood legislation. This raises issues ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime. Ridiculous as in the abortion... Read More →

HLR Interviews Greg Bondar Australia and Canada are the two English-speaking jurisdictions where the legalization of euthanasia has made the greatest inroads. Critics charge that Canada follows an expansive and permissive approach to promoting “medical assistance in dying,”... Read More →

Monozukuri (ものづくり) is one of the most important concepts in the Japanese cultural universe. The straight translation of monozukuri is deceptively simple: literally, “making things.” But in practice it is so much more than that. My colleague Rebecca Chunghee Kim at Ritsumeikan... Read More →

  For folks of a certain age, the championing of stem cell therapy research is inextricably tied to cultural icons like Marty McFly or Superman—or, as they are known in real life, Michael J. Fox and Christopher Reeve. Both of these men are famous for more than just the... Read More →