Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

In Our Chaotic Age, Some Atheists Are Rethinking Secularism

Carl R. Trueman

It is eighty years since C. S. Lewis delivered the lectures that were eventually to be published…

Catholic Education Is Taking Off

Mark Bauerlein

Last week the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education (ICLE) held its annual conference at Duquesne University. Pittsburgh…

Forgetting the Art of Memory

Esmé Partridge

AI tools like ChatGPT launched less than a year ago, but they’re already taking over the workplace.…

The Dark Side of “Miracle Drugs”

Peter Tonguette

The United States is hooked on a regular regimen of pills, tablets, and capsules. According to the…

Why I Became an American Citizen

Carl R. Trueman

I believe in America.” That is the opening line of perhaps the greatest movie ever made, The Godfather.…

The “Synodal Process”: Talking a New Church into Being?

George Weigel

One of the worst of contemporary hymn texts bids us to “Sing a new Church into being.”…

At Princeton, the Ugliness Is the Point

Kari Jenson Gold

Once upon a time, when you turned off Route 1 onto Washington Road, you knew you were…

The Gospel According to Levin

Peter J. Leithart

Anna Karenina throws herself in front of a train at the end of the seventh part of…

The Cost of Communism

Colin Dueck

Only two blocks from the White House, a small museum in an elegant Beaux Arts mansion draws…

The Pleasure of Walking

John Wilson

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Walking the Synodal Way . . . Off a Cliff

Raymond J. de Souza

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Beauty Makes a Comeback

Jeremy Wayne Tate

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Fight with Style

Micah Mattix

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A Different Kind of Pride Flag

Carter Skeel

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What Émile Zola’s Nana Can Teach Our Liberated Age

Algis Valiunas

Of the great nineteenth-century French novelists, Victor Hugo still enjoys a certain renown in America, thanks to…