Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Our Dreyfus Case
In December 1894, Captain Alfred Dreyfus of the French Army was convicted of treason on the grounds…
Trump Attacks Planned Parenthood
Last week, the Trump Administration enacted the “Protect Life Rule,” which will change Title X regulations to begin…
Living Down Bombingham
Between 1947 and 1965, white vigilantes dynamited fifty black homes and churches in Birmingham, Alabama. On one…
A New Conservative Agenda
What has been known as conservatism in the Republican party since Ronald Reagan left office, fully thirty…
Letter to an Aspiring Priest
I’m grateful to you for getting in touch. Many people today would no doubt think you are…
The Past in Full
There’s a book I keep in the bathroom at home, a big blue volume of 750 pages…
Baptism of Blood
It is a scrupulously made short film, shot with several cameras in 2015. Arabic letters dance atop…
Boy on the Temple Roof
Young Rabbi Binder has opened the floor for a “free discussion” period at the afternoon Hebrew school…
The New Lazarus
The Aviatorby eugene vodolazkintranslated by lisa c. haydenoneworld, 400 pages, $26.99 In one of the greatest memoirs…
Miyazaki’s Reality
Miyazakiworld: A Life in Artby susan napieryale, 344 pages, $30 Never-Ending Man, a documentary that recently enjoyed…
Briefly Noted
Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah by brant pitre image…
Digging Shakespeare
I’d chosen English lit with the intentOf studying the writings of the Bard;But I was told he…
The Phone Not Ringing
The cumuli reach to the noontime moon.Nuthatch and warbler, starling and cowbird,Fall like the famished on seed…
The Annunciation I
Whispers of love were in the springtime airas I lay dreaming of our first full kissbeside the…
Letters—March 2019
Lay Leadership Citing mass disenfranchisement in a “papal-episcopal oligarchy,” Bronwen McShea (“Bishops Unbound,” January) argues for institutional…
