Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Why Latinos Are Leaving the Catholic Church
Even as an increasing share of U.S. Catholics are Latino, Catholics account for a declining share of…
A Crash Course in Q
Let’s keep Christianity weird.” So said the Southern Baptists’ official face to the nation, Russell Moore, as…
The Hebrew Republic
Scholars have long recognized that the Bible supplied what Mark Noll has called the “common coinage of…
Moving Mulberry Trees
Increase our faith!” the disciples demanded of the Lord (Luke 17:5-10). “If,” the Lord reasonably replied, “you…
Humanae Vitae: What If?
Cardinal Carlo Caffarra of Bologna has long been a vocal supporter of Humanae Vitae’s teaching on the morally…
The Uncertain Future of Protestantism
Last Tuesday, leading representatives of different models of conservative American Protestantism gathered at Biola University to discuss…
Reading Acts with the Reformers
In 1622, just two years after the Pilgrims had set sail for Plymouth, John Donne preached a…
Gods and Gopniks
Journalism is the art of translating abysmal ignorance intoexecrable prose. At least, that is its purest and…
First Latin Mass
Under their trapdoor brass lid buried flushIn marble lay the notes: a shallow tombOf keys that Lazarus-like…
To Hazel on Her 70th Birthday
Why not call the sun the moon?nOr call coffee tea?nWhy not call a cat a dognOr a…
Paper Town
The fictional town of Agloe, New York, was invented as a copyright trap by cartographers to help…
Anglicanism on Its Knees
The Anglican Communion has nearly eighty-five million members spread around the globe. Until the mid-twentieth century, these…
In-Churching Russia
On the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution, the Orthodox Churchhad 50,000 parishes, a thousand men’s and women’s…
Invisibly Naked
Will you uncover your hair?” they ask when they hear I’m divorcing. I am taken aback each…
Road to Emmaus
After his funeral, which of the elevenopted to find and mend their rotten netsand fish? And what…
