Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Religion of Muggles
The main reason for disliking the Harry Potter books is obviously their membership in
The Academic Advantages of the Bible
For years, Christians have asserted that the removal of the study of the Bible from public school…
Is Pope Francis a Liberal Protestant?
Is the pope Catholic?” For at least a century, this was the way we Anglicans joked about…
As the Bard Might Say . . .
Four centuries after his death, Shakespeare remains a peerless playwright because of his remarkable insight into the…
Christian Freedom
Earlier this year, when the British MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told an incredulous TV presenter that he objects…
A Harvest of Witnesses
In Greek mythology, Sisyphus is a crafty and deceitful king, condemned by Zeus to roll a huge…
Pope Francis’s Reset Button
The past two years have seen endless conflict over Pope Francis’s 2016 post-synodal apostolic exhortation, Amoris laetitia.…
An Exercise in Thoughtless “Theology”
In July, Antonio Spadaro, S.J., editor of La Civiltà Cattolica, and Marcelo Figueroa, a Presbyterian pastor and editor…
The Godless Nursery School
Hell hath no fury like secular parents in one of America’s most expensive zip codes when they…
“You Have to Decide.”
In writing Lessons in Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II, one of my secondary…
The Principled Ambivalence of Pope Francis
Pope Francis’s apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium is rightly considered the inaugural address of his pontificate. In it,…
Our Misguided War on Legalism
I opened my sophomore Medieval Humanities class this year by reading the Franciscan rule to my students…
Reformation “What Might Have Beens”
The Reformers didn’t intend to split the Western church or to create new churches. Every one of…
A Rose in Bloom: Luther’s Reformation at 500
In many ways, Lutherans occupy an unusual space in world Christendom—too “Catholic” for their Baptist friends and…
Everything Is Outside the Text
Rémi Brague famously described Europe as having an “eccentric identity.” He meant that Europe’s culture is one…
