Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
When Is a Lutheran Not a Lutheran?
Last Sunday, a New Jersey Lutheran church celebrated the transition of its pastor from womanhood to manhood.…
The Impossibility of “Alt-Right Christianity”
I am not anti-Christian. I’m a Lutheran,” says Hunter Wallace, an alt-right blogger cited in Matthew Rose’s…
Pork Roll, Lent, and Catholic Identity
A few weeks before Ash Wednesday, an Associated Press squib with Lenten implications appeared in the Washington…
Lenten Fasting Biohacks
Would you like your repentance to yield some return on investment this Lent? Perhaps in the form…
Death and Dappled Hope
Promise Me, Dad:A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purposeby joe bidenflatiron books, 272 pages, $27 Many politicians’…
Preaching vs. Practice
For Pope Francis, a long honeymoon has ended. For nearly five years since his election in March…
For Love of God and of Us
February 1, 2018 marked the passing of Germain Gabriel Grisez, a man of the Church and one…
The Vatican’s China Whitewash
Like many others, I received with skepticism the news of a possible deal to resolve the long-standing…
Called to Eucharist
Over the centuries, the theology and practice of the Eucharist have been distorted in many ways. One…
Men Without Conviction, Churches Without People
Europe’s wholesale abandonment of its Christian faith is often explained as the inevitable by-product of modern social,…
Newlyweds
In India the housewives kill themselves: / a crop of twenty thousand every year. / Some eat…
To a Decorative Dwarf in the Garbage
Perhaps you’ll find a home in some back yard / Beneath a poplar, or beside an ash;…
Benedict in Silence
As we approach the fifth anniversary of Benedict XVI’s abdication and Francis’s election, we face a strange…
Proofs for God in the Pret A Manger Age
Belief in God’s existence is not just a leap of faith; it is a reasonable conclusion which…
The Eschatological Hope of Bearing Children
Stop bearing children.” So says one of a cadre of new environmental voices decrying the dangers of…
