The Narthex
Escape Hatch from the Culture of Death
Dr. Hasuda Taiji introduced the life-saving 'baby box' to Japan
By Jason Morgan | November 17th 2020 4:27 PMA great man has died. Dr. Hasuda Taiji (1936-2020) passed away in late October, leaving behind many iterations around the world of the thing for which he will always be remembered: a hole in the wall. Dr. Hasuda was an ob-gyn at the Jikei Byōin (“Mercy Hospital”) in Kumamoto, Japan.…
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Is the government controlled by a secret cabal of super-sinners?
By Jason Morgan | October 5th 2020 3:10 PMWhen I hear “Q,” I think of Quelle. Quelle is the German word for “source.” Philologists in the early twentieth century who studied the Synoptic Gospels (the Gospel of St. John is obviously sui generis, but the Gospels of Sts. Matthew, Mark, and Luke often overlap) began to wonder whether…
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His supporters simply see that he stands up for Christianity
By Jason Morgan | October 1st 2020 3:23 PMReligion ought to have sheltered American democracy from the dangers of irreligion, as de Tocqueville famously observed, but it did not. This practical failure of religion in part explains the surprise election of Donald Trump in 2016. Trump’s supporters are not as anxious about the fate of their country—although, to…
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