Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Mirror Verse

Robert B. Shaw

Brightly it gapes at the room. Nothing can argue the glass out of its passive (but wait:…

Roaming Baptists

Curtis W. Freeman

Towards Baptist Catholicityby steven r. harmonwipf and stock, 275 pages, $30 Given the bitterness of the Baptist…

Saved in Hope: Benedict’s Second Encyclical

Richard John Neuhaus

Saved in Hope: Benedict’s Second Encyclical “Spe salvi facti sumus—in hope we were saved. So says Saint…

Grade Incomplete

Linda S. Schwab

A couple of weeks ago I dreamed I lost my place. It started simply enough. I dreamed…

My Church, My Strip Mall

Anthony Sacramone

Read Richard Mouw’s “Spiritual Consumerism’s Upside,” recently made available online at Christianity Today ‘s website. In it…

Atheism and Violence

Edward T. Oakes

Books advocating atheism have recently been enjoying a modest boomlet. Sales are solid, book readings are sold…

The N.Y. Times vs. the Well-Endowed College

Nathaniel Peters

In the past few months, there have been a string of articles¯particularly in the New York Times…

Waking Up to Springtime

Richard John Neuhaus

It’s a good day to be thinking about the Christian mission, this Day of the Conversion of…

From the Provinces

R. R. Reno

Poor Omaha. I’ve been noticing my adopted hometown cropping up more and more frequently as shorthand. Fargo…

On Being a Pallbearer

Paul Gregory Alms

Recently, I served as a pallbearer for my grandfather on my mother’s side. I had never served…

John Cardinal O’Connor

Richard John Neuhaus

Rocco Palmo over on Whispers in the Loggia reminds us that this week , January 15 to…

Why We Whisper: Restoring Our Right to Say It’s Wrong

Jim DeMint and J. David Woodar

On August 31, 2007, the president of Clemson University opened a letter from the South Carolina chapter…

Better Citizens, More Faithful Catholics

Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.

When we speak about a nation’s culture, we mean the entire fabric of its common life, from…

Poets Who Kept Guard of the City

John Merchant

Poetry, the Polish poet Adam Zagajewski explains, springs from the negotiation poets routinely make between “the real,…

Eric Clapton: Susceptible to the Truth

John Powell

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to…