Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Difference a Name Makes

Molly Oshatz

It’s amazing the difference a name makes. On one day this past week, nearly a hundred endangered…

Scops and Skalds

A. M. Juster

Becoming a Poet in Anglo-Saxon England
 by emily thornbury
 cambridge, 338 pages, $99 My years of mandatory…

​Unconstitutional Catholics

Carson Holloway

In late January, the Supreme Court granted review in Glossip v. Gross, a case involving a constitutional…

Baptist Catholics

Ephraim Radner

Contesting Catholicity: Theology for Other Baptists by curtis w. freeman baylor, 478 pages, $49.95 When I’m in…

Going South

Philip Jenkins

From Every Tribe and Nation: A Historian’s Discovery of the Global Christian Story by mark a. noll…

In Polls We Trust

Robert Wuthnow

One of the many claims of today’s polling industry is that it is the source of credible…

Thy Will Be Done

R. R. Reno

I‘m writing in late June. The Supreme Court has yet to release its decision about same-sex marriage.…

Lower Higher Ed

Marjorie Maddox

           Here God gums up in the mouth, won’t spit itself out with every easy expletive, leaving the…

Write Away

Randy Boyagoda

The most electrifying reading experience I’ve had this past year came 656 pages into Donna Tartt’s recent…

Technocracy Now

James Kalb

The recently revised New York City Health Department form for parents requesting birth certificates asks the “woman…

Roland on Vaikuntha

David Bentley Hart

At first there was only the vigorous snuffling sound of an inquisitive snout near my brow, then…

Our Need for Privacy

Elizabeth C. Corey

The new game Cards Against Humanity advertises itself as “a party game for horrible people—despicable and awkward…

Letters—Aug/Sept 2015

Various

Defending Orthodoxy Mykhailo Cherenkov’s pain and anger are deeply personal (“Orthodox Terrorism,” May). Anti-Ukrainian separatists have occupied…

Pantoum ​for East Fifty-First

Paul Mariani

And then, in an instant, it’s gone: the world of East Fifty-First.Gone the round-the-clock clack of the…

Response from Pew Research Center to “In Polls We Trust”

Alan Cooperman

The following is an official response from the Pew Research Center to Robert Wuthnow’s article, “In Polls…