The USCCB’s Just War Error
Just war is again being discussed in the public square by policymakers and prelates alike. Recently, the chairman of the USCCB’s Committee on Doctrine, Bishop James Massa, made a…
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When the Bells Stop Ringing
Why Me?
I visited a friend of mine a few years ago. He was a deeply faithful theologian, but without…
Return of the Nobles
Here, perhaps, is the greatest problem we face these days: Everything is full. Saunter over to your…
God and Man at MIT
The pamphleteers are hard to miss. They stand in front of the big doors of Lobby 7,…
Faith-Based Failures
On January 24, 2025, Mukhtar Mohamed Shariff was sentenced to seventeen years in prison for his role…
The Twisted Consequences of Chatbots
The USCCB’s Just War Error
Just war is again being discussed in the public square by policymakers and prelates alike. Recently, the…
An American Pope at a Time of War
When it comes to papal matters in Rhode Island, I am often interviewed on the local news.…
A Gracious and Modest Punch to the Gut
For Instanceby rhina p. espaillatwiseblood books, 126 pages, $18 Dominican-American poet and translator Rhina Espaillat, at ninety-four,…
The Almost-Greatness of Donald Trump and Leo XIV
Reading—for obvious reasons—Henri Daniel-Rops’s The Church in the Dark Ages, I have been repeatedly struck by the truism…
In Defense of Cultural Christianity
More than two centuries ago, Søren Kierkegaard attacked the established church of his native Denmark. He denounced…
Recovering the University’s Soul
The contemporary university is widely acknowledged to be in crisis. Loss of public confidence, relentless tuition increases,…
The Savannah Enlightenment
In 1716, a remarkable commoner by the name of James Oglethorpe took a leave of absence from…
A Whole New World
I remember wondering, one idle summer when I was a child, why God had made the world so…
Finding a Pulse
Trueman’s new book, The Desecration of Man, should further cement his authority. It supplements, focuses, and in…
The West Distorted
G. K. Chesterton’s novel The Flying Inn begins with a strange seaside encounter involving one Misysra Ammon,…
Godson
I doubt you’ll be a simple kind of manbut listen to the song. It’s a good plan.…
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place with Wifi
As waiters glide across the room,espresso steams beside my bookon the small, round table.The low purl of…
The No / The Yes
Nothing terrifies more than the Noyour lover whispers through a closed door:You may die for all I…
The Crisis of Conservative Judaism
The institutions of Conservative Judaism—its synagogues, its summer camps, its youth organizations, its sisterhoods and men’s organizations,…
I Want Life, Not the “Meaning of Life”
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, a posthumous but vivid presence at this publication through his friendship with Fr.…
God and Gender in Judaism
Some time this year the Reform movement will issue its new High Holy Day prayerbook, for the…
Spirituality Without Spirits
It’s a great and self-serving mess, this claim to be “spiritual but not religious,” which we hear…
The Problem with Salad Bowl Religion
I wonder what my rebbe ancestors would think of me,” writes a young Unitarian Universalist minister in…
Between Liberalism and Orthodoxy
Beyond Reasonable Doubtby louis jacobslittman library of jewish civilizations, 267 pages, $32.95 In 1957, Louis Jacobs, a…
