Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Ash Wednesday in Rome
Half an hour before sunrise on Ash Wednesday, hundreds of English-speakers from all over Rome will begin…
Abbot Zerchi and the Dictatorship of Relativism
At the urging of a couple of friends who had recently read it for the first time,…
John XXIII’s Prophetic Encyclical
When Pope John XXIII is canonized this April, the honor will be long-awaited—and richly deserved. After serving…
Nabokov’s Supernatural Secret
In 2009, the remains of Vladimir Nabokov’s unfinished last novel, The Original of Laura, were published, more…
Roland on Consciousness
A few months ago, the morning before my eldest brother wasto return home to Norway after a…
Keeping Faith in Provo
Oh say, what is truth? ’Tis the fairest gem / That theriches of worlds can produce, /…
The Decline and Rise
of Secular Judaism
In his 1782 book Letters from an American Farmer, John de Crèvecœur asked the most famous and…
Equipoise
Early light slants low across the lawn.Cuplike, this little valley brims with sun.Pages fill and empty. In…
Against Heterosexuality
Alasdair MacIntyre once quipped that “facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth-century invention.” Something…
Inequality and Agency
n Inequality and Agency n What is inequality? It’s the unbalanced distribution ofnpower and control over wealth…
Saving Jesus
“BrickHouse Security saves Jesus for 8th year in a row, offers free GPS tracking of nativity scenes…
My Mother’s Abortion
Early in my ministry as a pastor, my mother told me she’d had an abortion. It was…
Among the Snake Handlers
Years ago, I went twice to the snake-handling Church of the Lord Jesus Christ in Kingston, Georgia—about…
Rediscovering the Martyrology
The Catholic Church began compiling “martyrologies”—lists of saints, typically martyrs—during the first centuries after Constantine. In the…
Jesus Might Bake the Cake but Would He Perform the Nuptials?
Perhaps it is the natural result of social evolution but as a nation, our understanding of what…
