Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
What a Woman Ought to Think
This is the “hiring season” for those of us in academia, the time of year when faculty…
John Paul II on the American Experiment
In receiving the credentials of the Honorable Lindy Boggs as Ambassador to the Holy See on December…
The Ways We Worship
One weekend in that tumultuous year 1968 I was on call at a parish church outside of…
Good Restaurants in Gomorrah
We scratch where it itches and even the most casual observer of the Episcopal Church knows that…
Women of Renewal: A Statement
This statement, originally titled “A Christian Women’s Declaration,” was issued on September 16, 1997 by the Ecumenical…
The Gift of Salvation
In the spring of 1994, a distinguished group of Roman Catholics and evangelical Protestants issued a much-discussed…
The Problem with Salad Bowl Religion
I wonder what my rebbe ancestors would think of me,” writes a young Unitarian Universalist minister in…
Untangling Evolution
There’s no denying that historically evolution has been harmful to religious faith. It has contributed to undermining…
Christ and Creation’s Longing
In 1971, I published In Defense of People, the first book-length critique of “the ecology movement” that…
Only Connect
Le Ton Beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language by douglas r. hofstadter basic…
Typology and the Public Church
One of the contributions of twentieth-century Catholic “nouvelle théologie,” and of Henri de Lubac and Jean Danielou…
Episcopalians: The Leftward Center
The modern Episcopal Church is the oddest of churches: scrupulous about maintaining tradition in matters of worship…
Atrocities Not Fit to Print
Since January 1996, when a coalition of Christian and Jewish activists began working to publicize in America…
The Unraveling of Scientific Materialism
In a retrospective essay on Carl Sagan in the January 9, 1997 New York Review of Books,…
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
The writers and filmmakers of science fiction have been bold in depicting what life will be like…
