Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Papacy and Power
This essay is adapted from George Weigel’s Erasmus Lecture, delivered in New York in November 2000. Pope…
Poetry
According to Polybius The sea route to Byzantium Was fortunate in ways not clear When looking at…
The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales
The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms’ Magic Fairy Tales by…
Defining Social Justice
Last year marked the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Friedrich Hayek, among whose many contributions…
Optics
Black is no color / and all of them. / White is all colors...
Peace When?
It seems that Bill Clinton won’t get that Nobel Peace Prize after all. On no issue of…
Evangelicals in the Church of Mary
“The Protestants were out at the pro“life ball,” my Catholic friend told me, with some agitation. “They…
For Useless Learning
In an essay written during World War II, C. S. Lewis raised the question of learning during…
The Liberated Lost
The Public Square The idea that religion is the heart of culture and culture is the form…
Sacred Fanfares
The international broadcast of the opening of Scotland’s new parliament in July 1999 gave the world more…
Technicians of Learning
Modern institutions talk about themselves. When a corporation refashions itself—undergoes a complete makeover not merely to look…
Rights, Animal and Human
Last year Harvard Law School offered its first“ever course on animal rights. This is good news for…
Pius XII as Scapegoat
From the beginning of his papacy in 1939 until well after his death in 1958, Pope Pius…
Life in the Little Apple
My wife and I have a commuter marriage: she lives and works in Valparaiso, Indiana, and I…
Seminary Sanity
When you start out at seminary with an eye toward entering the ministry, the first thing they…
