Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Threat
Barabbas we can understand—a bit unhinged, but we have planned for that containable derangement,just as in the…
Mormons Approaching Orthodoxy
In the spring of 1836, a few weeks before his Kirtland, Ohio, baptism into the Mormon Church,…
Silence of the Churches
Tomorrow, on April 29th, Rome’s white marble Trevi Fountain—its swirling waters and the charging baroque statues of…
Are Mormons Actually Moving Closer to Orthodoxy?
Are Mormons moving closer to Orthodoxy? According to Richard Mouw, retired president of Fuller Seminary, they are.…
Prince: Dance. Music. Sex. Religion.
Iʼm twenty years old, maybe twenty one. Weʼre four deep in my little two-door Saturn, on our…
Reading the Psalms with the Reformers
In the fourth century, St. Athanasius wrote a letter to a certain Marcellinus, who was likely a…
Scientific Subversion
Human exceptionalism was once considered a self-evident truth. No longer. For years, advocates for radical animal-rights agendas…
Always Fear, Always Love
Shame and bitterness overcame me when the priest said that my parents were not married. They had…
Francis Delivers
In the days leading up to Francis’s recent Apostolic Exhortation, Amoris Laeititia, one would have thought that…
A Stubborn Givenness
The Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, Amoris Laetitia, brings into the open a disturbing trend in this…
Sure, Tell Peter Too
The message the women heard from the “young man” is found in St. Mark (16:5-8). Mary Magdalene,…
To Render the Deeds of Mercy
A version of the following talk was given at the Shelbourne Easter Seminar on March 29, 2015.…
The Case Against Polygamy
Is polygamy the next same-sex marriage? Fundamentalist Mormons, Muslims, and others argue that federal and state statutes…
The Good of Religious Pluralism
Pluralism is often perceived as a threat to faith, associated with relativism and a loss of religious…
Repurposing Europe
For the Frenchmen who lived through World War II, the defining event of their lives was quintessentially…