Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Nanna’s Accordion
Nanna’s accordion / is gathering dust / on a plywood floor...
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,…
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…
