Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
As a Gay Catholic, I Don’t Feel Seen by Pope Francis
Whether you feel encouraged or concerned by Pope Francis’s tone toward LGBTQ matters, we can all agree…
God and the Bomb
The best movie you’ll see this year—or, if I’m being honest, this decade—is about two men having…
Culture Is Natural, Nature is Cultural
Modernity sets up a dichotomy between nature and culture. There’s a realm of natural fact, and a…
Jew-ish
In 1969, the year I was born, Joshua cracked the top 200 names for American boys for…
God Is Not Prissy
What’s God like? We think we know. God is the sovereign Creator and Lord. His ways aren’t…
Texting With AI Jesus
Want to talk to the Son of God? There’s an app for that. Text With Jesus, a…
Biden’s Awkward Abortion Legacy
Budget negotiations are set to heat up after Congress’s August recess. Some Republicans are planning to use…
A Tale of Two Women
Eve and Mary: These two women have played pivotal roles in the destiny of the human race.…
Just War, Just Peace, and Ukraine
Carl von Clausewitz, the nineteenth-century Prussian military theorist whose masterpiece, On War, is still studied today, is…
Oppenheimer’s Tragic Fate
In Oppenheimer, director Christopher Nolan has taken the meticulously researched seven-hundred-page book American Prometheus, by Kai Bird…
Sex in the One State
The most important book you can read right now is a little (and little-known) Russian novel titled…
Moving in the Right Direction
Missiles are flying and drones are attacking in Eastern Ukraine. Suicides are up. Fertility rates are down.…
Sleeping on the Ground
During the two years before my Catholic conversion, I spent several nights sleeping on the open ground…
The Simplest Jew
Once upon a time, goes an old Hasidic tale, the great Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev was…
Anti-Natal Engineering
Birth rates in South Korea are cratering. That country’s birth dearth demonstrates that men and women can…
