Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Seductive Social Gospel
America remains religious, but it might have been otherwise. In the late nineteenth century, Americans whose fathers…
Critical Blindness
Freud ranks among the great critical minds of the modern era. He did not take our conscious…
Letters—March 2012
developing status Christopher Kaczor (“Equal Rights, Unequal Wrongs,” August/September) echoes a fallacious argument now popular among pro-life…
The One Percent
In an important new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010, Charles Murray observes that…
Radical Revelries
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation ? by Michael Kazin Knopf, 329 pages, $27.95 Radical…
Our Stories and God’s
The Sense of an Ending ?by Julian Barnes ?Knopf, 163 pages, $23.95 n You’re not the person…
St. Clare of Assisi
Her parents tired of locking her up / before she tired of running away. / Love mocks…
All Gone
Silph-bearing Cyrenaica, said a poet, / Alluding to a plant now long extinct. / The coastal plain…
Obama’s Freedom Deficit
During the first three years of the Obama administration, the federal government has dramatically turned against religious…
In Defense of Religious Freedom
Eighteen years ago, this fellowship of Evangelical and Catholic pastors, theologians, and educators was formed to deepen…
Presbyterianism’s Democratic Captivity
There was a time when the Presbyterian Church’s voice mattered, when its witness informed and transformed American…
The Inertia of Reputation
I managed—aided by a combination of piteous entreaties, furious threats, and the occasional application of the lash—to…
Praying the New Mass
I’m still replying, “And also with you,” when I should be saying, “And with your spirit.” The…
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…
