Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Sibling Rivals
Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violenceby jonathan sacksschocken, 320 pages, $28.95 Love can be a problem.…
Scientific Regress
The problem with science is that so much of it simply isn’t. Last summer, the Open Science…
A Church that Was
Yes, I remember the Church of England, much more than a name, a living thing. As it…
Letters—May 2016
Bad Buildings Justin Shubow’s “Monument to Failure” (March) comes at a particularly critical time in our fight…
Parable
“Virtue! A fig!” We grasp the hoe and dig. / The dirt we turn is taken from…
Look At Me
Twenty-three years ago, under the pseudonym Catherine Maurice, a woman wrote a book about recovering her small…
The Threat
Barabbas we can understand— / a bit unhinged, but we have planned / for that containable derangement...
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…