Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Flannery O’Connor’s Genius and Grace
Before she died at the age of thirty-nine, Flannery O’Connor dismissed the idea of a biography—believing her…
Why do Christians Revere Jerusalem?
It’s perhaps not sporting to mock the New York Times when it tries to address Christianity. Pointing…
The Eternity of God
The Scottish theologian James B. Torrance (1923-2003) published in 1997 a brief but brilliant book titled Worship,…
Don’t Ask the Kids
Distrust of authority is now the American norm. In 1964, 77 percent of Americans said that they…
Learning to Play
My piano tuner is well over eighty years old. Each time I call him, I fear I’ll…
Politics of Vulnerability
I don’t think we’ve fully realized how acute feelings of vulnerability have become in twenty-first-century America. At…
Boomer Pharisaism
I live in a capital city. As in every capital in America, the city’s chief business is…
The Genius of Winding Paths
Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks edited by charles e. beveridge, lauren meier, and…
Embodied Caregiving
Dependency is just as much a part of the human experience as the ability to reason. And…
All Things to All People
Paul as a Problem in History and Culture: The Apostle and His Critics through the Centuriesby patrick…
A More Perfect Absolutism
It is part of the absurdity of American life that we decide questions of truth under the…
Liberal Transcendence
It’s tough to be a Martin Luther King liberal. All his life he has believed that bias…
The Ten Suggestions
When Moses came down from the mountain and cloudbearing the Ten Commandments in handand saw the calf…
The Cold War Is Over
Like most Englishmen, I grew up with a natural dislike of “abroad” and a belief in the…
The Court After Scalia
The term’s defining event was the February death of Justice Antonin Scalia. Everyone wonders how his successor…
