Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Open the Way
Open the Way for God? Take to the road,Calvary Hill. It is no easy path.Give up your…
Scout’s Grown Up
Go Set a Watchman by harper lee harpercollins, 288 pages, $27.99 It might be the greatest American…
The Holy Family
Of the Passover festival in Jerusalem, St. Luke concisely reports, “When the festival was ended, Jesus stayed…
On the Incarnation
The following is a homily that was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.:…
The Last Scapegoat
The following is a sermon given last Sunday at All Souls Church (Wheaton, IL) in the wake…
Christmas and a World Upside-Down
Biblical scholars generally agree that Luke’s Gospel was written at least a generation later than Paul’s first…
Whatever Happened to Sacral Kingship?
The Watershed of Modern Politics: Law, Virtue, Kingship, and Consent (1300-1650)by Francis OakleyYale University Press, 440 pages,…
From Rudolph to Bethlehem
Even though Rudolph had been around as a story book character well before 1949, Gene Autry’s recording…
David’s Sin, David’s Son
The son of David has no name, none that the author of Second Samuel thought to record.…
Remembering Two Great Bishops
We American Catholics are, in the main, notoriously uninterested in our own history. So it likely escaped…
The Half-Empty Auditorium
The following essay is adapted from Chapter 3 of “The Fortunes of Poetry in an Age of…
Christmas Guide to Buying a Bible: 2015 Supplement
Good advice should stand the test of time. After reviewing the suggestions on my “Christmas Guide to…
Bonhoeffer’s Last Advent
One year before Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed by the Nazis on the morning of April 9, 1945,…
