The Heart of the Public
The Heart of the Public is a publication of the Center for Christianity and Public Life (CCPL); we publish essays, commentary pieces, book reviews, and weekly news roundups looking at the intersection of Christian faith and public life.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 50 | Founded | 6 months ago | Last Issue | 3 days ago |
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The Slippery Slope of Compassion, and a Steadier Road to Death
By Justin Hawkins
As of August 5, 2026, medical patients in New York State whose prognoses indicate that they have fewer than six months to live may now ask their doctors to prescribe them drugs to hasten their death; the pati...
Come Now, and Let Us Reason Together About the Common Good: The Weekly Pulse
By Alex Arnold and Chris Gow
Discussions of what “the common good” means have surged in the past few months, perhaps partly because of the liberal use of the idea in Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica Humanitas. Moral theolog...
Removing the Beam From One’s Own Eye
By Tyler Denison
On September 9, 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech that would accidentally define the election cycle, and perhaps our entire era of modern politics. Speaking to her supporters about racism and bigotry among p...
Wielding the Language of Religion: The Weekly Pulse
By Alex Arnold, Chris Gow, Ruth Lee, and Tyler Denison
In an opinion column earlier this week, Ezra Klein argues that one of the more interesting conceits of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster movie The Odyssey is to smuggle the...
Grokking the Purpose of Education
By Wes Siscoe
grok /ˈgräk/, transitive verb: to understand profoundly and intuitively
-Merriam-Webster
Many know Grok simply as one of the growing list of AI chatbots—ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and, of course, Grok. B...
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