Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Work of Mourning

Roger Scruton

In a significant essay entitled “Mourning and Melancholia,” Freud wrote of “the work of mourning,” meaning the…

A Christian Defense of American Empire

Nigel Biggar

There was a time when many people, at least in Europe, thought that empire was a good…

Liberalism and Double Standards

R. R. Reno

Consistency is a basic principle of justice, and one important form of criticism is the exposure of…

How Modernity Swallowed Islamism

Shadi Hamid

The Middle East was ahead of its time—and certainly ahead of the West—on at least one thing:…

The Morality of a Strategy of Denial

Elbridge A. Colby

America’s foreign policy needs to reorient. In my book The Strategy of Denial: American Defense in an…

New Faith

Ephraim Radner

When I was twenty-four, I spent several weeks sleeping on the floor of the Brussels Salvation Army,…

Our Forgotten Language

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Hana Videen joins…

Preaching the Gospel in War-Torn Ukraine

Jonathon Van Maren

I arrived in Ukraine in late August, six months after the Russian invasion began. For a week,…

Conservatism on the Brink

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Frank H. Buckley…

St. Augustine and Justice After Dobbs

John Nawn

I see myself as a spiritual son of St. Augustine. I even named my son after him.…

NatCon Against the Black Pill

Justin Lee

A certain breed of conservative—over-read, much too sedentary, prone to debilitating nostalgia for gone-away worlds which might…

Cutting the Cord

Samira Kawash

The phone of my childhood was a chunky white box with a rotary dial. It hung on…

Peace in the Middle East

Mark Bauerlein

The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Aryeh Lightstone joins the…

Standing with the Word of God

George Cardinal Pell

Quite some time ago, during his seminary days, a young priest friend of mine attended an introductory…

Longing After the Fleshpots

Luke Burgis

Bones and All, a romantic horror about two cannibalistic teenage lovers on a road trip across 1980s…