Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Complicated Judgements
In Search of Lost Meaning: The New Eastern Europe by Adam Michnik University of California Press, 248…
Between Athens and Jerusalem
Leo Strauss is the thinker who in the last few decades has contributed the most to the…
The Cursed Poets and Their Gods
The term poète maudit, or “cursed poet,” was coined by Paul Verlaine. His little book Les poètes…
Mormonism Obsessed with Christ
Mocking Mormonism is one of the last frontiers of verbal lawlessness to be untouched by the vigilante…
Poor Explanations
Faith and Money: How Religion Contributes to Wealth and Poverty by Lisa A. Keister Cambridge, 254 pages,…
The Needle’s Eye
An old textual conundrum regarding the New Testament, frequently revisited by those who fret over every jot…
Letters
Urban Orders Jane Jacobs was a historian of sorts, demanding that municipal officials not only consider, but…
Love God and Do What You Will: Avoiding Over-Devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Discernment
In so many Christian contexts today, it is almost impossible to avoid hearing about the importance of…
Dream Vocation
It happened in a country like Tibet, My dream: I’d climbed a mountain pass and found Where…
A Complete Life
John Hall Wheelock, a minor twentieth-century poet—dubbed “the last romantic” in the title of his oral autobiography—captured…
The Precious Steven Pinker
I sometimes find it hard to believe that Steven Pinker really believes what he believes; surely, I…
Real Reform?
Islam Without Extremes: A Muslim Case for Liberty by Mustafa Akyol Norton, 352 pages, $25.95 In a…
Hope-Bridled Grief
The death of a loved one is excruciatingly painful, and it would seem wrong to ask moral…
Undone
The women knew their effort was in vain: No box of unguent, myrrh, or aloes could Prevent…
Unconservative Evangelicals
From Billy Graham to Sarah Palin: Evangelicals and the Betrayal of American Conservatism by D. G. Hart…
