Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill
The February 12 meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill is important for a number of reasons,…
An Invitation to a Roman Lent
It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years since my son, Stephen, and I spent two…
Mary at Baptism?
On an escarpment high above the Euphrates River in eastern Syria sit the ruins of Dura-Europos, one…
Making the Garden
It has taken me almost fifty years to understand fully that there is a necessary connection between…
Fie Upon Phi
A venerable rule of predication is that certain words—or, at least, certain homonymous terms—admit of univocal, equivocal,…
Refugees in Germany
As I am writing these lines at the end of November, the county and city of Passau…
The Perils of Religious Liberty
On January 24, 1774, the young James Madison, twenty-two years old and two years out of Princeton,…
Culture By Subtraction
Could I get some mayonnaise with these fries?” I asked the garçon in my broken French, imagining…
Five Grueling Days of Joy
When the woman came for our daughters, we were crowded around a small round metal table, eating…
Los Alamos
The mountaineers of Hitler’s 16th corpsstood on Mt. Elbrus and admired the view,confident that peace was near.…
Gaul Divided
The January 7, 2015 terrorist attacks provoked the largest demonstrations in France since the liberation of Paris.…
Letters
Dark Powers R. R. Reno’s “The Nazi Taboo” section in his “Public Square” (December) immediately piqued my…
Vigils
January 6, Epiphany and the first day of Mardi Gras,in the year of Our Lord 2015 The…
Reading Toward the End
Revelation is one of those dramas where hero and villain keep missing each other. It is like…
Worship Wars
I listened in on a conversation recently on “the worship wars” in evangelical-style congregations and I heard…
