Theology
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Belief Rooted in Love
The new sexual revolutionaries have shifted focus from the legal sanctioning of gay marriage to the elimination…
The Vicar of Baghdad
If Jesus came back to the Middle East today, I think he would look a lot like…
Intelligent Design Might Be Wrong, But Not the Way You Think
Stephen Meredith’s “Looking for God in All the Wrong Places” in the February 2014 issue of First…
Chesterton’s Pursuit of Holiness
When G.K. Chesterton died in 1936, his achievements were recognized the world over. Msgr. Ronald Knox called…
Sent in the Spirit
The following is excerpted from a homily based on Isaiah 61, delivered at the ordination of Joshua…
Some Millennial Frustration with America’s New Evangelization
I have an awkward confession to make. When I hear American Catholics cheerlead the New Evangelization, I’m…
The Guitar Maker
for Herbert Clancey Like the signature in maplewood of sun-splashed rain, this man’s bright pattern must remain…
Paper Town
The fictional town of Agloe, New York, was invented as a copyright trap by cartographers to help…
Briefly Noted
Should We Live Forever? The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging by gilbert meilaender eerdmans, 135 pages, $18 An…
The Accidental Protestant
Few modern Protestants dealt as carefully, fully, or sympathetically with twentieth-century Catholicism as did Berkouwer,” writes Peter…
The Christian Theologian of Zion
Israel could not have hoped for as passionate an admirer as Fr. Marcel-Jacques Dubois, this most Israeli…
Loving and Staying in Goma
Goma airport, the gateway to one of the largest and most strategic cities in the Democratic Republic…
Looking for God in All the Wrong Places
On one side are the “ultra-Darwinists,” a term used by Stephen Jay Gould to criticize the stridency…
Alone in the New America
We were surprised to meet Anthony there: a twenty-six-year-old white man in an argyle sweater vest, white…
Living Offering
When your child is wrapped up in her own umbilical cord, the further the labor progresses, the…