Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Man, Woman, and Public Policy
Our topic is sexual identity and the meaning of gender in elite public discourse. Few topics are…
Not a Poem
Old people can’t write poetry. Only those who think and live and feel and praise and swear and fight…
The Economics of Human Freedom
Editors’ Note: The following is a condensation of Centesimus Annus (“The Hundredth Year”), Pope John Paul II’s…
The Paleo’s Paleo
The Conservative Constitution by Russell Kirk Regnery Gateway, 241 pages, $22.95 In the various worlds of American…
The Church Militant
Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention by Nancy Tatom Ammerman Rutgers…
Home Alone: The Plight of Children
When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children by Sylvia Annn Hewlett Basic Books, 341…
Beyond Modernity
After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundation of Freedom by David Walsh HarperSanFrancisco, 296 pages, $29.95 In this…
Aristocrats at Bay
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine Yale University Press, 813 pages, $39.95…
The Fencer
The appearance of perfection: Chiaroscuro come to an August day Wafted by van Rijn. Against the waving sky is the…
At Home
This morning, early, I wakened to a knocking at the pane—an apple bough, fruit-laden, stirred by wind—and rose to…
The Mother of Editorials: The Times Gets Religion
Maybe we have been too hard on the editorial page of the most influential of our parish…
Editorial: That Encyclical
We do not ordinarily publish official church statements. In fact, we never have before. This issue, however,…
Presbyterians for GLARF
The Presbyterian Church (USA) has done the sensible thing and rejected the report of its Task Force…
White Firefighters, Hank Aaron, and Affirmative Action
Just when the Supreme Court is beginning to reconsider “affirmative action” plans that provide preferences on the…
The Irrational and the Limits of Human Reason
Pick up nearly any university publisher’s catalogue these days, and you are likely to find more than…