Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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,…
Rise of the “Unholy Left”
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by michael…
Aquinas & Homosexuality
Is a Thomism friendly to the gay lifestyle the wave of the future? Is it the next…
Wishing for God’s Plan: Mary’s fiat in Luke 1:38
In the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hangs van Eyck’s The Annunciation, where a rainbow-winged…
God Become Baby
The Gospels obviously tell the life story of a human being. Jesus was born. He lived in…
Neoconservative Catholicism in America
A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics by todd scribner cua, 155 pages,…
There Are Books in the House
The row of books is talking like a ghost / in mildewy damp voices. Look at me.…
