Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Salt of the Earth
Salt of the earth” is one of the best-known phrases in the Bible, but it’s more enigmatic…
The New “New Orthodoxy”
Almost three decades ago, theologian Ronald Goetz spoke of the rise of a “new orthodoxy” in Christian…
Picturing Mary
The new exhibit at Washington D.C.’s National Museum of Women in the Arts, “Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother,…
God of Fire, Man of Prayer
Birmingham is a post-Civil War city founded in 1871 in response to the discovery of one of…
October 27
You know what I remember first about my daughter being born? Weirdly, not the miracle of it,…
Ad Litteram
When lecturing undergraduates on Kafka’s Metamorphosis—during his otherwise idyllic American years, when he had to make his…
A New Concordat?
Vox temporis, vox Dei: The voice of the times is the voice of God. On issue after…
Between Two Synods
On November 19, 1964, the draft text of Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom was abruptly pulled…
How To Be a Sick Christian
When sickness or injury comes upon us, we face the question of whether we really believe what…
Building on Truth
Building is a willful act of symbolic import, sometimes intended and sometimes not, and all architecture expresses…
Letters
Reason’s Role The purpose of my book, Making Gay Okay, is to see what natural reason can…
City of Google
Cybertheology: Thinking Christianity in the Era of the Internet by antonio spadaro fordham, 160 pages, $24 The…
Balancing
To land in a story whose end I do not know— as if we ever saw to…
Briefly Noted
Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World? by mitchell stephens? palgrave macmillan, ?336…
Standardized Culture
When standardized tests were first developed long ago (the SAT started in 1926), they had a virtuous…
