Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Specter of the Beatitudes
Workers’ Tales: Socialist Fairy Tales, Fables, and Allegories from Great Britainedited by michael rosenprinceton, 328 pages, $19.95…
A Parting of Ways
So Abram said to Lot, “Let’s not have any quarreling between you and me.” Genesis 13:8 We are brothers.…
Deus Absconditus (After Psalm 88)
When all is well it’s easy to confessYour goodness Lord, but when you disappearCapriciously ignoring our distressYou…
Letters
God’s Supersessionism David Novak (“Supersessionism Hard and Soft,” February) clearly demonstrates the negative consequences of the “hard”…
A Religion of Activism
In 2002, in these pages, Peter Berger, the late American sociologist, offered a succinct summary of the…
Pelagius the Progressive
The year 2018 marked the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the excommunication of one of Christianity’s most famous heretics:…
From Crete to Romania
In Iași, Romania, in January 2019, some three hundred Orthodox scholars gathered for the inaugural conference of…
Manufacturing Hate
Virginia governor Ralph Northam had a tough February. Soon after he made brutal remarks about the fate…
Mild and Equitable Establishments
Whitefish Mountain, a ski resort in northwest Montana, is known for its spicy terrain, rime-clothed “snow ghosts,”…
Pro-Life Liturgy
An icon of the Annunciation appears on the central altar doors of every Orthodox Christian church. The…
What Arthur Brooks Gets Wrong
Americans aren’t angry, writes American Enterprise Institute President Arthur C. Brooks (Love Your Enemies). When we’re angry,…
An Open Letter to Cardinal Reinhard Marx
Your Eminence: I noted with interest your recent announcement of a “binding synodal process” during which the…
Glorious Humility
One of the most memorable sermons I’ve ever heard was on the glory of the risen, ascended,…
Christ-Haunted George Saunders
In his 2013 article “The Catholic Writer Today,” Dana Gioia argued that the term “Catholic writer” no…
For a Time Such as This
Many Jews interpret the story of Purim as a series of fortuitous, coincidental events that happen to…
