Theology

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Letters—April 2019

Various

God’s Supersessionism David Novak (“Supersessionism Hard and Soft,” February) clearly demonstrates the negative consequences of the “hard”…

A Religion of Activism

Alexander Riley

In 2002, in these pages, Peter Berger, the late American socio­logist, offered a succinct summary of the…

Pelagius the Progressive

Charlotte Allen

The year 2018 marked the sixteen-hundredth anniversary of the excommunication of one of Christianity’s most famous heretics:…

From Crete to Romania

Nicholas Denysenko

In Iași, Romania, in January 2019, some three hundred Orthodox scholars gathered for the inaugural conference of…

Manufacturing Hate

R. R. Reno

Virginia governor Ralph Northam had a tough February. Soon after he made brutal remarks about the fate…

Mild and Equitable Establishments

Richard W. Garnett

Whitefish Mountain, a ski resort in northwest Montana, is known for its spicy terrain, rime-clothed “snow ghosts,”…

Pro-Life Liturgy

Carrie Frederick Frost

An icon of the Annunciation appears on the central altar doors of every Orthodox Christian church. The…

Big Julie

Joseph Epstein

James Boswell, who knew a thing or two about hero worship, called Julius Caesar “the greatest man…

What Arthur Brooks Gets Wrong

Peter J. Leithart

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

George Weigel

Your Eminence: I noted with interest your recent announcement of a “binding synodal process” during which the…

Glorious Humility

Wesley Hill

One of the most memorable sermons I’ve ever heard was on the glory of the risen, ascended,…

Christ-Haunted George Saunders

Joshua Hren

In his 2013 article “The Catholic Writer Today,” Dana Gioia argued that the term “Catholic writer” no…

For a Time Such as This

Alec Goldstein

Many Jews interpret the story of Purim as a series of fortuitous, coincidental events that happen to…

Against the Dead Consensus

Various

The 2016 election laid bare profound but long-hidden ideological divisions among America’s conservative intellectuals. Some of us…

A Tale of Two Georges

George Weigel

When a pope is elected, the cardinals who have just chosen him make their way to the…