Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

Man, Woman, and Public Policy

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead and David Blankenhorn

Our topic is sexual identity and the meaning of gender in elite public discourse. Few topics are…

Not a Poem

Ruth Wells

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

Pope John Paul II

Editors’ Note: The following is a condensation of Centesimus Annus (“The Hundredth Year”), Pope John Paul II’s…

The Paleo’s Paleo

James Nuechterlein

The Conservative Constitution by Russell Kirk Regnery Gateway, 241 pages, $22.95 In the various worlds of American…

The Church Militant

William H. Willimon

Baptist Battles: Social Change and Religious Conflict in the Southern Baptist Convention by Nancy Tatom Ammerman Rutgers…

Home Alone: The Plight of Children

David Popenoe

When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children by Sylvia Annn Hewlett Basic Books, 341…

Beyond Modernity

Quentin L. Quade

After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundation of Freedom by David Walsh HarperSanFrancisco, 296 pages, $29.95 In this…

Aristocrats at Bay

Alan Jacobs

The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine Yale University Press, 813 pages, $39.95…

The Fencer

Myrna Reid Grant

The appearance of perfection: Chiaroscuro come to an August day Wafted by van Rijn. Against the waving sky is the…

At Home

Eric Trethewey

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

Richard John Neuhaus

Maybe we have been too hard on the editorial page of the most influential of our parish…

Editorial: That Encyclical

The Editors

We do not ordinarily publish official church statements. In fact, we never have before. This issue, however,…

Presbyterians for GLARF

Phillip E. Johnson

The Presbyterian Church (USA) has done the sensible thing and rejected the report of its Task Force…

White Firefighters, Hank Aaron, and Affirmative Action

Richard E. Duncan

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

Peter J. Leithart

Pick up nearly any university publisher’s catalogue these days, and you are likely to find more than…