Theology
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Bring Back the Blue Laws
My home state of North Dakota just removed the respirator from a dying vestige of American culture.…
Evangelicals and Zen Masters
One evening in 1995, at an evangelical Bible study in New Jersey for twenty-somethings, I learned that…
Violence and Politesse
Of all the places I’ve worked and played in my life, the politest one, the one where…
“Heaven and Everything Else”
I first read Abraham Joshua Heschel’s The Sabbath: Its Meaning for Modern Man less than twenty years after…
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
We are brothers. May we never fight. / Should you wish to occupy the valley / to…
Deus Absconditus (After Psalm 88)
When all is well it’s easy to confess / Your goodness Lord, but when you disappear /…
Letters—April 2019
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…
Big Julie
James Boswell, who knew a thing or two about hero worship, called Julius Caesar “the greatest man…
