Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Defeating the Equity Regime
It is useless, for now, to predict where the six-justice conservative majority on the Supreme Court may…
On the Threshold: Part III
Now it was Lent, and we were just forty days from Easter. Heavy rains and rising temperatures…
Elon Musk and the Posthumanist Threat
Elon Musk is typically the object of considerable masculine envy, and so, in the interests of avoiding…
Charles Malik, Christian Diplomat
Thirty-five years ago, in a hospital in East Beirut, Charles Malik lay dying of vascular and kidney…
Books to Look Forward To
I have confessed more than once to spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about books that…
The Recovery of Fraternal Correction Among Bishops
In the golden age of the Catholic episcopate—the days of great Church Fathers like Cyprian of Carthage…
Holy Week 2022: A Wartime Meditation
In both the Roman and Byzantine liturgical calendars, Lent 2022 has coincided with a brutal war in…
The Meaning of a Kiss
Judas, betrayest thou the Son of man with a kiss?” (Luke 22:48). We all know the reasons…
How the Person Became a Self
The following is adapted from the foreword to Carl R. Trueman’s new book Strange New World: How…
France’s Tragic Song
The Song of Rolandtranslated by dorothy l. sayerspenguin, 208 pages, $14 This year, France’s presidential election is…
From Anglican to Catholic
On September 29 last year, the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, I was received into…
The End of Christendom?
New York police officer Wilbert Mora was buried February 2. He was gunned down in a Harlem…
A Theology of Fiction
A spirited debate has been going on for nearly a decade now, much of it in these pages,…
God of the Gold and Purple finches
Finches at all my feeders flash and bicker in ritual consternation and all weather, jangle at me…
Calendar as Catechism
The Jewish calendar is the Jewish catechism: So said the -nineteenth-century German champion of Jewish Orthodoxy, Samson…