Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Healing the Dying
At our annual reunions, my brother and sisters and I often joked that we flew home every…
The Protest
It wasn’t a perfect evening for a demonstration. The night was cold and damp. On the rain-slick…
Leaving the Party
The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Volume IV:Party, Parliament, and the Dividing of the Whigs, 1780–1794…
Down and Out at Del Mar
The most dismaying thing I have read in this year of crummy happenings was a one-page vignette…
Gnostic Liberalism
The idea that human beings are non-bodily persons inhabiting non-personal bodies never quite goes away. Although the…
Vulgar Deconstruction
Back in the 1970s, when the humanities still set the intellectual tone for the college campus, it…
Last Stab at Goodness
I’ll tell you how to be the perfect man:You do a perfect imitationOf someone who would hesitateTo…
On My Late Grandmother Still Receiving Mail
And still the letters came.Her neatly printed nameWas clear on every one.A few proclaimed she’d wonA one-time…
The Snowstorms that Remain
I’m waiting like a child on Christmas Eve,waiting for dawn to show me that the snowis finally…
A (Liturgical) New Year’s Resolution
If the civil new year is an occasion to resolve to Do Better in the future, the…
Recalibrating the Culture War in 2016
We thought that the culture war was behind us and that we were entering a Brave New…
Samicles
Five years ago, InterVarsity Press launched the Reformation Commentary on Scripture, a projected twenty-eight-volume series of exegesis…
Wanting to Love the Pope
Back in the 1980s, the National Catholic Reporter, always a force for Church unity, ran a cartoon…
On our Need for the Real Thomas More
Next month marks the fiftieth anniversary of the film A Man for All Seasons. And if it’s…
Calvinist Environmentalism?
Inherit the Holy Mountain: Religion and the Rise American Environmentalismby Mark StollOxford University Press, 416 pages, $39.95…
