Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Fatherhood After Christmas
My friend’s six-year-old son wanted to be God the Father in the Christmas pageant. He reasoned that…
Against Great Books
For many years, traditionalist thinkers have promoted the teaching of a set of core texts—the “great books”—as…
Market Morals
Defending the Free Market: The Moral Case for a Free Economy by Robert A. Sirico Regnery, 256…
Jung’s Therapeutic Gnosticism
For the better part of a century, Carl Jung and (later) his estate kept the manuscript of…
Letters
Conversion Many thanks for publishing David Novak’s learned and perceptive essay “The Jewish Mission” (November), which takes…
What are Children For?
Friedrich Engels was a prophet of marriage in the modern age. Monogamous marriage, he declared in The…
Witness Unto Death
Many were scarred from beatings and floggings. Several were missing eyes, others their arms. Paul of Neo-Caesarea’s…
Roe’s Pro-Life Legacy
Roe v. Wade did far more than create a constitutional right to abortion—it crippled the pro-choice and…
The Long March Ahead
I rarely talk politics, not because I have none, but because mine are too eccentric to appeal…
Maps, Flowers, Leaves and Weeds
They trade these old books with scarce a flip, Some autographed, some lovingly signed. Most have been…
Cowboys in Winter
The Sons of Katie Elder make such noise! Dad’s fast asleep, despite his three grandsons waving their…
Rediscovering Paul VI
When the Vatican recently announced its new candidates for sainthood, there was a remarkable name on its…
How Microphones Muffle Good Preaching
Technology changes things. Perhaps that seems obvious; one need think only of the advances made in areas…
Conflict Resolution
Where the Conflict Really Lies: Science, Religion, and Naturalism by Alvin Plantinga Oxford, 376 pages, $27.95 “Naturalism”…
The Orthodox Renaissance
At the beginning of the twentieth century, those Westerners who knew about the Orthodox Church tended to…