Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Mary on the Prairie
The city of Bismarck was founded in 1872 in what was then the Dakota Territory, at a…
Muslim Scholars vs. ISIS
On Wednesday, September 24, 2014, “More than 120 Muslim scholars from around the world joined an open…
The Church in the Bloodlands
Ukraine has been riven by civil strife. The winter months of 2014 saw a three-month-long anti-government demonstration…
Taking the Long Way
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead…
Witch Morals
Upon its release fifteen years ago, the distributors of The Blair Witch Project realized they had a…
Briefly Noted
How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor? by james k. a. smith? eerdmans, 160 pages, $16…
Carter’s Progress
Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy Carter? by randall balmer? basic, 304 pages, $27.99 Historians generally agree that…
Evangelizing Christians
If baptism isn’t just a symbol of initiation but is an initiation, then Zach was already a…
October Poem
What is the best poem you ever wrote in your whole life? I ask a friend of…
Treasury in Heaven
Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition by gary a. anderson yale, 232 pages,…
The Sound of Salvation
Can music save your mortal soul?” Don McLean asked that question in his 1971 classic, “American Pie.”…
The Death of Martha Wichorek
In the winter of 1996, while I was studying the record of Jack Kevorkian’s first forty-seven physician-assisted…
Christian Witness in Ukraine
On a summer afternoon at the southern tip of the Crimean Peninsula, I shield my face from…
Are You Greek?
Are you Greek?” This is the question I get asked the most when I tell someone that I…
Newman’s Bones
This coming October marks the sixth anniversary of the exhumation of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman’s corpse.…
