Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Making the Wager
God: The Evidence. The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World By Patrick Glynn Prima.…
Babel Undone
A few decades ago I published a short piece in Christianity Today about something I had observed on a…
The Catholic Church and the Holocaust
On March 16, 1998, the Holy See released a long-awaited statement on the Church and the Holocaust,…
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…