Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Staying Put
Why not become Anglican? some have asked since I laid out a case for “Reformational Catholicism” at…
The Anglican Wannabe Fallacy
Prior to April 27’s canonization-doubleheader, I taped a lengthy interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, discussing both…
Check Your Speaker List
The Telos Group works to offer a voice that is “genuinely pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, pro-American, and pro-peace, all at…
The Future of Catholicism
I know it rankles, but I’m afraid it’s a fact, one we need to acknowledge if we’re…
The Devil on the Charles
Memorial Hall is the ugliest building on the campus of Harvard University, in my view. Built in…
Please, Leave the Hagia Sophia Alone
In November 2012, my wife and I visited Hagia Sophia, the great former Eastern Orthodox basilica. For…
An Archbishop of Destiny
When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost…
Allow Abortion—Or You’re Guilty of Torture
U.N. experts in Geneva were at it again last week telling the Holy See that Catholic teaching…
We Need More First Amendment Freedom, Not Less
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis famously wrote that the answer to objectionable speech “is more speech,…
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…
