Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Is There No Moral Law?
The weak and ill constituted shall perish: the first principle of our philanthropy. And one shall help…
Music Man
Readers often find the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles stultifying. These pages contain list after list of…
The Pan-Orthodox Council Must and Will Proceed
The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, an event that has been in preparation for…
The Bible Cause at 200
Two hundred years ago this Spring, on May 11, 1816, representatives from local Bible societies around the…
There and Back Again: A First-Century Jewish Tale
Captivity: A Novelby György SpiróNew York: Restless Books, 864 pages, $29.99 Michael Chabon once wrote a novel…
Ritualed Knowing
Knowledge by Ritual: A Biblical Prolegomena to Sacramental TheologyBy Dru JohnsonEisenbrauns, 289 pages, $39.95 Epistemology and ritual…
Punching Down
On January 20, a federal appeals court heard arguments in the highly publicized case of Kimberly Jean…
Letters
Marquette Mickey Mattox’s piece on Marquette University (“Marquette’s Gender Regime,” April) was welcome indeed. I taught at…
Mormons at the Forefront
Many would like to domesticate Mormon strangeness, what Richard Mouw recently called in these pages its “ill-considered…
The Secular Prison
Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Reportby saba mahmoodprinceton, 248 pages, $24.95 While I was…
Homeless
Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump together are likely to end this primary season with a majority of…
Kraków’s Geography of Sanctity
In a recent book, The Geography of Genius, Eric Weiner sets out on what he calls “a…
Mammon Ascendant
So, there I was, pondering, with an old familiar feeling of perplexity (about which more anon), certain…
Experimental Design
This tangle of Drosophila, these flieslow-orbiting your wineglass and my peachniggle a question: whether meaning liesonly in…
The One Really Interesting Story
The Christian Church confesses that [what the world calls]“myth” is history itself. She recognizes herself by this…
