Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Christianity and Civilization
The room was overflowing, the applause thunderous. Novelist, activist, and essayist Paul Kingsnorth delivered a galvanizing Erasmus…
My Gay Tragedy
I sat in my chair, looking through the window across the wide plain to the towers of…
Mere Christendom
Douglas Wilson argues for what ought to be uncontroversial: governance by wise Christians. He calls it “mere Christendom”…
The Less You Know
There’s a car mechanic I have known for years. Ed knew my father and worked on his…
Ready for Weirdness
Living in Wonder:Finding Mystery and Meaning in a Secular Ageby rod dreherzondervan, 288 pages, $29.99 Is life…
Let God
I’m a great lover of the English language, but I must confess that, lately, I’ve come to…
Finding Order in the Pieces
In October of 2023, I wrote a column here about how I came to be doing jigsaw…
The Things That Are Above
The 2024 U.S. election season proved a time of revelation for the Church. A remarkable and worrying…
Low Church Atheism
The heyday of “New Atheism” around 2009 or 2010 featured a strain of millennial humor that has…
Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky at 75
The Sheltering Sky begins with one protagonist opening his eyes and ends with another refusing to open…
Trump’s Victory Is Good News for Religious Believers
Religious believers breathed sighs of relief on Wednesday morning. Religious liberty was not a significant issue in…
On the Centenary of Sigrid Undset’s Conversion
One hundred years ago today, at the age of forty-two, Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset entered the Catholic…
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
As the presidential campaign winds down, the Trump-Vance ticket is ramping up warnings of Christian persecution if…
Anxiety: A Philosophical Problem
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Samir Chopra joins in…
The End of the Age of Hitler
A century ago, the most potent moral figure in the West was Jesus Christ. Believers and unbelievers…
