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Caravaggio, Sacrifice of Isaac, oil on canvas, 104x135 cm, ca. 1603. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy

On Leo Strauss’s ‘Progress or Return?’

‘Strauss points away from the modern project of progressive enlightenment and toward an individual ascent out of modernity. Neither of the two premodern ways of life, biblical or philosophic, partakes of the modern hope in social progress, nor in the…

What Two Kingdoms Doctrine Can Teach Us about Home: Joining Audrey Unverferth and Rod Dreher’s Conversation

‘Whether through Scripture, the teachings of the Church, or life experience, Christians learn that no relationship or physical place makes them truly at home. For Christians, it has always been challenging to find the right balance between our hope in…

Building Bridges to Protect the Youth — The Hungarian Way

‘The Criminal Code now stipulates that sexual crimes against people under 18 shall never lapse. To make the legal consequences of these heinous crimes even more severe, people convicted of imprisonment for such crimes shall not be released on probation….

Hungary Helps Builds Church at Christ’s Baptism Site in Jordan

Hungary Helps, a humanitarian aid programme launched by the Hungarian government in 2017, has recently funded the construction of a new church at the site of Jesus Christ’s baptism by the Jordan River in Jordan. Hungary Helps focuses on oppressed…
in God we trust

Combining God and State: Ten Principles to Enable Nations to Prosper

‘A simple example of restraining evil, which works quite well, are the referees who manage athletic contests. They simply enforce the rules so that order is maintained. They do not help either team win, they do not help the injured,…
Scenes from the life of Saint Catherine, painted by Masolino. Rome, San Clemente

Hungarian Pilgrims at St Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai

‘The importance of the Orthodox rite of St Catherine’s Monastery at the foot of the 2,300-metre Mount Sinai (Jebel Musa, also known as Horeb) in the Sinai Peninsula grew only after the loss of Jerusalem in 1187 and the fall…
Søren Kierkegaard by Carl Stænders Kunstforlag (detail, unknown date)

To Face Our Mental Health Is to Face Our Demons: A Case for Subjective Anxiety

‘It might not be as explicitly visible as substance abuse, but below the surface, we are all struggling with our own imperfection and “sinfulness”. We all let our subjective anxiety overwhelm us and tempt us into a destructive state. Kierkegaard…

Ecumenical Week of Prayer Focuses on Christian Unity and the Dichotomy of Love and Hatred

At the end of the opening worship service, participants collectively prayed for persecuted Christians. Since 2018, the opening day of the joint programme series of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference and ECCH has also been designated as the Sunday for…

Can a War Ever Be Justified?

The inherent dilemma regarding the rules of engagement in a just war is that they tend to become either vague or restrictive when military operations fail to achieve victory or a ceasefire leading to peace….
Protestant preachers as galley slaves in the port of Naples.

How the Distinctive Clothing of Hungarian Reformed Ministers Took Shape and Changed During the Centuries — Part IV

The second half of the 17th century was a time of great hardships for Protestants: Protestant church history calls the years between 1671 and 1681 the ‘decade of mourning’. Thanks to some illustrated works by pastors freed from galley slavery,…

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