Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Anglicanism Runs Aground
The good ship Anglican, as Archbishop Robin Eames acknowledges in his preface to the Windsor Report, appears…
Saving the Pledge
What can you do when the Supreme Court is wrong? Amend the Constitution? It’s nearly impossible. Appoint…
The Episcopal Priest Cleans Out His Office
After the years of tear-drying and tissue-passing, the closed-door conferences above reproach and beyond remembrance, he packs…
The Old Country
In that darkness there could be no hope” Not merely light withdrawn but light refused. The ashen…
Lord Jesus Christ: Devotion to Jesus in Earliest Christianity
During the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius in the middle of the second century, an unnamed…
The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review
The Constitution of the United States of America is a majestic old document, but in our age…
Internationalisms, etc.
Among the most oft-quoted statements on American foreign policy is that of John Quincy Adams in 1821:…
Embryology: Inconvenient Facts
In the ongoing debate about cloning human embryos for research, and about destroying them in order to…
Political Theologies
From time to time a writer cuts through confusing debates and polemics to expose the fundamental form…
The Unsilent Pope
Inside the Vatican of Pius XII: The Memoir of an American Diplomat During World War II By…
You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian’s Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy.
You Are Peter: An Orthodox Theologian’s Reflection on the Exercise of Papal Primacy By Olivier Clément, translated…
November Letters
The Judaism of Jesus In “ The Passion ’s Passionate Despisers” (June/July), Kenneth L. Woodward summed up…
The Witness of Czeslaw Milosz
Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie in 1911 and raised in Wilno, both of which are in…
Episcopal Straight Talk
Last month I discussed the signs of an emerging new leadership within the conference of Catholic bishops.…
Surgical Sex
When the practice of sex-change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would often remind…