Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Playing the Long Season

Gilbert Meilaender

Unlike many in our society, I find myself becoming less rather than more inter-ested in the NCAA…

Fig Leaves and Falsehoods

Janet E. Smith

The exposé of Planned Parenthood engineered by Live Action has not only disclosed some illegal and immoral…

Missing Religion

Patrick J. Wolf

Does God Make a Difference? Taking Religion Seriously in Our Schools and Universities by Warren A. Nord…

Blessed John Paul II and His Times

George Weigel

The beatification of Pope John Paul II on May 1, 2011, six years after his holy death,…

Priests’ Graveyard

Lisa Barnett

In five neat rows, white crosses sprout like daffodils upon the graves, as if their blooms could…

God’s Patient Stet

David Lyle Jeffrey

It is a sobering thought that Richard Wilbur, the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning poet (1957, 1989) who was…

A Bumping Boxcar Language

Anthony Esolen

I await with great delight the first translation of the Novus Ordo Mass into English. The bland,…

Stringed Instrument

Kim Bridgford

Don’t spend time stringing and tuning your instrument. Start making music now! Lucky Numbers 33, 2, 37,…

Counting China’s Christians

Byron Johnson Rodney Stark Carson Mencken

Through much of the twentieth century, it was widely believed among Western intellectuals that the Chinese were…

The Trials of American Lutheranism

Robert Benne

The two largest Lutheran churches in America have now broken up: the Lutheran Church“Missouri Synod (LCMS) in…

When It’s Time to Stop Talking

Wesley J. Smith

Contested Reproduction by John H. Evans University of Chicago Press, 213 pages, $45 n Is talking about…

The Emancipation of Avarice

Edward Skidelsky

The last few years have seen a surprising revival of the term “greed.” For many decades, the…

Letters

Various

The Reformation and Churchly Scripture There is a tension in Protestant ecclesiology that Timothy George only hints…

Ideology and Transcendence

James Nuechterlein

Everyone thinks ideologically, but no one wants to admit it. Most of our responses to events in…

A Person You Flee At Parties

David Bentley Hart

Forgive me for simply laying out a sequence of random thoughts (on a single theme) that occurred…