Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Secular Pilgrims in America
Village Atheists: How America’s Unbelievers Made Their Way in a Godly Nationby leigh eric schmidtprinceton university press,…
Cocktails with the Existentialists
Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktailsby sarah bakewellother press, 448 pages, $25 More than seven decades…
Lessons from an Era of Confusion
In the introduction to Aggiornamento on the Hill of Janus: The American College in Rome, 1955-1979, Msgr.…
United from Above
“Where two or three are gathered together in my name,” says Jesus, “there am I among them.”…
Reformational Preaching
The preaching of the Gospel as a sacramental event is at the heart of Reformation theology. Preaching…
Bioethics in 2017
Aside from Donald Trump’s call to “repeal and replace” Obamacare and Hillary Clinton’s promise to repeal the…
New Year’s Wishes for some Catholic Brethren
The year ahead promises to be a challenging year for the Catholic Church. Thus some new year’s…
Rogue One and the Return of Reverence
Star Wars is—or should be—a religious franchise. The Jedi are a monastic order trained in contemplating and…
Silence: Scorsese’s Spiritual Masterpiece
It has taken almost thirty years for Martin Scorsese to film Silence, Shūsaku Endō’s novel about Catholic…
Violent Lessons
Children are not exposed to enough violence. Yes, I know the grim statistics, how a child who…
The Loss of Peace
The title of New York Times columnist Charles Blow’s post-election column was an anguished cry: “America Elects…
Franciscan Churchmanship
When Kenneth Clark devoted an episode to the Middle Ages in his magisterial BBC series, Civilisation, he…
A Grim Harvest
Upon learning of his son’s fatal heart disease, a father arranges to donate his own heart in…
After Planning
Thirty years ago, Lucy Suchman’s Plans and Situated Actions reminded us of the limits of our ability…
Can the Religious Right be Saved?
I am an heir of Bible Belt America, but also a survivor of Bible Belt America. I…
