Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Seriously, God Is Love
Sergius Bulgakov has long been hailed by Orthodox and non-Orthodox alike as a titan of twentieth-century theology.…
Synodality and the Spirit of Truth
Facts and great personages in world history occur, as it were, twice . . . the first…
The Pope of Peace
Amidst a war involving the world’s foremost nuclear powers, Pope Francis has been a lonely voice for…
The Rise of Antihumanism
In 2009, one of Google’s self-driving cars came to an intersection with a four-way stop. It came…
Theopolitics of Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow have claimed that Russia’s so-called Special Operation is…
In Our Chaotic Age, Some Atheists Are Rethinking Secularism
It is eighty years since C. S. Lewis delivered the lectures that were eventually to be published…
Catholic Education Is Taking Off
Last week the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education (ICLE) held its annual conference at Duquesne University. Pittsburgh…
Forgetting the Art of Memory
AI tools like ChatGPT launched less than a year ago, but they’re already taking over the workplace.…
The Dark Side of “Miracle Drugs”
The United States is hooked on a regular regimen of pills, tablets, and capsules. According to the…
Why I Became an American Citizen
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?
One of the worst of contemporary hymn texts bids us to “Sing a new Church into being.”…
At Princeton, the Ugliness Is the Point
Once upon a time, when you turned off Route 1 onto Washington Road, you knew you were…
The Gospel According to Levin
Anna Karenina throws herself in front of a train at the end of the seventh part of…
The Cost of Communism
Only two blocks from the White House, a small museum in an elegant Beaux Arts mansion draws…
The Pleasure of Walking
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