Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
When Toward Evening, Light….
What is death but stepping through a door, then onto summer lawns, with fathers waiting or mothers…
March Madness? Just Say No
A recollection from my childhood: In the (relatively) small Midwestern town in which I grew up, many…
Coates’s Lost Cause
Between the World and Me has been received with great fanfare. It won the National Book Award…
Retreat
My life is one perpetual retreat.Wall off the world for books to be adored,Testaments Old and New,…
Nanna’s Accordion
Nanna’s accordionis gathering duston a plywood floorat the top of the stairs. She got it in ’41,back…
The Miracle of Esther
Esther is a book of the Bible that does not refer to God explicitly even once. On…
Christian but Not Religious
Recently, a pastor at an Evangelical church in New York City (we have them) told me about…
What We Do Not Believe Is What We Believe
I’m spending time this Lent with the Creed. I hadn’t gotten further than the first sentence before…
Called to Unity
Like many Ukrainian Greco-Catholics, I am pleased that Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill finally met in Havana…
The Havana Declaration
For me, the text of the Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill’s joint declaration came as a surprise,…
An Imposition of Ashes
Just lately from the forest and after a short time on the savannah, humanity acquired a sense…
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…
Fie Upon Phi
A venerable rule of predication is that certain words—or, at least, certain homonymous terms—admit of univocal, equivocal,…
