Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
John XXIII and John Paul II
Pope Francis’s bold decisions to canonize Blessed John XXIII without the normal post-beatification miracle, and to link…
Let’s Not Get the Hell Out of Here
Easter Sunday is a hard act to follow. “The strife is o’er, the battle done / Now…
From Death to Life
Science teaches that the cosmological line between death and life is tenuous and fragile: Were the earth…
The Joy of Orthodox Pascha
One spring, a few years before I converted to Eastern Orthodoxy, my wife and I vacationed in…
Easter with Flannery O’Connor
This coming August 3 will mark the golden anniversary of Flannery O’Connor’s “Passover,” to adopt the biblical…
The Dangers of Internet Orthodoxy
Three years ago or so I received a Facebook message from a thoughtful young friend-of-a-friend. After studying…
Backing Down from Gregory of Nyssa’s Ascent
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry by hans boersmaeerdmans, 224 pages, $22 The early Church’s…
THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST, Ten Years Later
It has now been ten years since Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ was released. The…
Micro-Christendoms
Years ago, members of a Boulder, Colorado, ministers’ association determined that they were responsible for Boulder’s civic…
Are Christians Obsessed with Sex?
From time to time a member of the Christian left will admonish the Christian right to stop…
The Ass of Passion Sunday
On Passion Sunday, more years than not, I give a children’s sermon. At the conclusion of the…
The Miserable Science Meets the Divine Science
On April 3–4, the Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago held its sixth annual conference…
John Donne in Lent
John Donne, it is clear, is not everyone’s cup of tea. In a notable essay in 1990,…
My Journey Into the Orthodox Church
I recall being deeply moved by Fr. Richard John Neuhaus’ recounting of his journey from Lutheranism into…
God and Freedom
F or the better part of two centuries now, one of the standard tropes in western high…
