Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Reading is Believing
I’ve been tracking youth reading habits and test scores for a long time, but I’ve never asked…
The Splendor of Truth in 2017
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just…
Briefly Noted
Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church, State, and Society edited…
Autumn Road
I follow the clean-edged macadam northTo catch the train. The maples lining bothSides hang with leaves turned…
The Transmigration of Theological Nonsense
During the Long Lent of 2002, Sister Betsy Conway, who lived in the Bostonian epicenter of the…
Losing my Child at Easter
The closest my husband got to giving away he was going to propose was at the Easter…
Christianity and the Thucydides Trap
China’s economic growth has been so preposterously huge and fast that statistics sound like a riff from…
Civility and Church Life
As I write these words I’m looking at an untitled cartoon from the National Catholic Reporter in…
Mashallah: What God Wants, Happens
The great oracle of English conservatism, Charles Moore, once pronounced Slumdog Millionaire the Islamic breakthrough movie, in…
A Memoir I Never Expected to Write
When the second volume of my John Paul II biography, The End and the Beginning, was published…
Encomium for an Evangelical Catholic
Robert Jenson was my closest friend and collaborator for sixty years. We first met when we were…
Can These Bones Live?
The following sermon was preached at the funeral of Robert W. Jenson on Saturday, September 16, at…
St. Rich, Pray for Us
Over the course of the next several weeks, we will continue to hear plenty about the Protestant…
Back to the Liturgy Wars
At long last, we are back to the liturgy wars. In the past month, Pope Francis has…
Such a Wreckage
John BradburneThe Vagabond of GodBy Didier RanceDarton, Longman & Todd, 504 pages, $20.77 John Bradburne’s fan club—an…
