Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Gimmicks and God
I have a confession to make. In my former life as a Baptist youth evangelist, I did…
Themes for Surviving “Ordinary Time”
I’m fortunate to hear good preaching on a regular basis. But even the best Catholic preaching these…
Residual Entities
The Coup at Catholic University: The 1968 Revolution in American Catholic Education by Fr. Peter Mitchell Ignatius,…
The Pulpit is the Prow
When I was four years old, I would (so I’m told) stand the ottoman in the living…
From “Meh” to “Amen”
According to the recent study from the Pew Research Center, 22.8 percent of U.S. adults and 35…
The Religious Crowds
In the 2002 Brazilian film City of God (Cidade de Deus), the narrator, Rocket, provides the audience…
Mary, Mary’s Son, and Islam
Does Islam worship the one God of Abraham, like Jews and Christians, or some other god? Many…
Talking Calvinism with Robert H. Schuller
One day in the spring of 1990, I received a phone call from Professor Hendrikus Berkhof, a…
Frequencies of Thought
This essay is a response to Stephen Meredith’s article, “The Three Fausts.” Peter Thiel also responded to Meredith,…
The Genghis Firmament
Suspended archery of nightkeeps a resplendent distanceslowly circling the Earth. Just odd long spittlestreaks from dark iron…
Briefly Noted
Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive prepared by the archdiocese of philadelphia and the pontifical…
Our Carrie Nation
The spectacle made me think of Prohibition, the last time rich white progressives imposed their moral views…
Spoonspell
From the dank deeps under dampened compost, to my amazement, there now emerges almost unspoiled…
Against Edenism
The future will look very different from the past. The Garden of Paradise will culminate in the…
The Three Fausts
We live in an age of science and technology. To say this means more than acknowledging the…
