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by Todd Hall What’s in a name? Well, it turns out that the answer to that question is “a whole lot.” Names can be venerated and names can be tarnished. They can follow someone around, and they can come to symbolize character and personality. Names matter.   I came across an interesting fact several years ago when thinking about this commandment: Adolf was a popular name in Germany prior to World War 2, with several notable rulers of Germany as well as Saints and others appear

By Ben Peterson, CCS Fellow The Center for Christian Studies is happy to congratulate Dr. Ben Peterson, CCS Fellow and guest editor of JCS II/2, "The Church and the Polis ," on the publication of his forthcoming book, Community, Character, and the Governance of the Social Commons: Sanctuaries of Order , set to be released in June of this year by Bloomsbury Academic. We are happy to share with our CCS community the preface to the book, included below! From the book descripti

Keith D. Stanglin In my previous post , I identified three truths about technology that are conveyed in many ancient stories.  First, technology always comes with negative, often unintended consequences; every technology does or undoes something.  Second, the people closest to the technology—its creators and purveyors—have the hardest time seeing or foreseeing those negative effects.  Third, they and the technophiles in charge have incentive to ignore or suppress those negati