Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Mind the Gap
I grew up in a religiously sympathetic, if not always actively practicing, household. During my toddler years, my…
Cathedrals and Us
The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent neo-Gothic…
Russia’s Sacrilegious War on Ukraine
Today’s Russian Orthodox leadership is a theological, moral, and pastoral train wreck. U.S. foreign policy can’t fix…
JD Vance States the Obvious About Ordo Amoris
We are living, it scarcely needs saying, in unpredictable times. But no one could have imagined that…
Thinking Twice About Re-Enchantment
Since the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, the story goes, we’ve lived more and more in a…
The Bible Throughout the Ages
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Bruce Gordon joins in…
Redemption Before Christ
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Gerald R. McDermott joins…
The Theology of Music
Élisabeth-Paule Labat (1897–1975) was an accomplished pianist and composer when she entered the abbey of Saint-Michel de…
No Method but Christ
When I try to explain to people why we need to recover patristic interpretation, the biggest obstacle…
Orthodoxy at War
St. Sophia Cathedral is quiet and almost empty when I step inside on a wintry morning. Saints…
What to Remember
I had thought of calling this piece “Against Memory.” Hyperbolic, perhaps, but I had my reasons. I’ve started…
Dawkins’s Gender Dilemma
On December 30, Richard Dawkins resigned from the honorary board of the Freedom from Religion Foundation (FFRF)…
Stacked Decks, “Conversation in the Spirit,” and the Catholic Future
Various cultures—English, Turkish, Chinese—claim to have invented the maxim, “The fish rots from the head down” (a…
Seeing Sacred Scripture
Is there a visual language to Sacred Scripture? Some passages of the Bible have become inextricably entwined…
Reparations Should Not Trump Communion
Throughout Christian history, periods of social crisis have typically provoked an intensification of the faithful’s belief and…
