Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Everything I Know About Being a Lector I Learned in Third Grade
For no particular reason except that it has been on my mind, this goes out to lectors…
Dear Father: Please Stop It
In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated…
Devotio Tarantino
Tarantino and Theologyeds. jonathan walls and jerry wallsslideshow, 264 pages, $19.99 Quentin Tarantino once said, “Movies are…
In Honor of David Steinmetz
David Curtis Steinmetz, one of the leading church historians of our time, died this past November at…
An Open Mind?
Examining the complex functioning of a human brain as it lay exposed on an operating table can…
Free University Orthodoxy
During the debate over “biblical inerrancy” that raged among evangelicalism for several years in the late 1970s,…
What Really Happened at Synod 2015
The following is a preview from our January issue: When the XIV Ordinary General Assembly of the…
A Dialogue Upon the Island
On the strand, Ariel and Caliban: the former seated atop a milk-white boulder with knees drawn up…
The Power of Love
When I go walking on the street My Guardian Angel walks behind. I hear the rustling of…
Dissenter for the Absolute
No American philosophy has as yet been produced,” complained Charles Sanders Peirce in 1866. “Since our country…
Properly Basic
Knowledge and Christian Belief by alvin plantinga eerdmans, 141 pages, $16 D oes God exist? Is it…
A Crisis of Conservative Catholicism
Let’s begin with a story. It’s one I’ve heard many times; it’s one I’ve told more than…
Deliver Us From Innocence
God preserve us from all innocence,” Querry tells Mother Agnes in Graham Greene’s 1960 novel A Burnt-Out…
God’s Strangeness
Skimming through a stack of books recently, I found myself reading a testimonial of sorts from James…
Ministries of Life
If you ride New York City’s subways, you will see public service advertisements blazoned above you. Some…