Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
How to Tell Time in Heaven
Heaven is hard to conceptualize in terms of space and time. For instance: What kind of memories…
Editing Each Other
I am an editor. My job is to improve manuscripts submitted by authors and prepare them for…
John Paul II’s American Legacy
If ever there was a pope of global stature it was St. John Paul II. He took…
Easter Raised an Octave
Sunday is the octave of Easter, which commemorates the eighth day after Jesus’s resurrection from the dead.…
Clearing the Waters
I had the privilege of working for Blessed John Paul II for nine years. As a young…
A Prayer for Death
We tame the Lord’s Prayer. We have to, so it isn’t nearly as disturbing to us as…
Mideast Christians, Dhimmis Once More?
Recently, an Islamist group in the Syrian opposition, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL),…
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…
Analogia Resurrectionis
One of the great discoveries I made when I began to take my first theological steps was…
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…
