How do violent words and absurd cultural narratives shape the moral fabric of our society? On Driving Home the Faith, host Dr. Ken Craycraft reflects on his latest column for Catholic World Report, titled "Spilling Blood on the Walls of the City."

Drawing inspiration from Mark Helprin’s acclaimed novel A Soldier of the Great War, Craycraft examines how modern political, legal, and social pathologies mirror the violent rhetoric of early 20th-century movements like Italian Futurism. Connecting Helprin’s insight—"When people write violent absurdities on the walls of the city, the city becomes violent and absurd"—to contemporary headlines across the political spectrum, Craycraft issues a bipartisan critique of escalating cultural aggression. He urges Catholics, who are washed in the blood of Christ, to reject vengeful rhetoric and actively stop spilling blood on the walls of the city. Stream now to listen!