Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Letters
Catholic Realities Ross Douthat’s summary of the state of the Catholic conversation (“Catholic Ideas and Catholic Realities,”…
Reading Lewis
After Humanity: A Guide to C. S. Lewis’s the Abolition of Manby michael wardword on fire academic, 253 pages,…
Safetyism
I don’t know anyone who believes in transhumanism, the techno-fantasy that we can merge our consciousness with computers…
Sexual Counter-Revolution
Planned Parenthood recently distributed flyers at Stewart Middle School in Tacoma, Washington. The flyers targeted eleven-year-olds, informing…
T Is for Timeless
Once a month, a robin’s-egg-blue box arrives at our house. “Mama! Mama! My books are here!” shouts…
Tech Pluralism
Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are virtual public squares, allowing individuals to communicate…
The Failure of Evangelical Elites
There are times in history when Christianity feels its place in society coming under threat. As it finds…
The Gospel According to Kanye
If you don’t pay too much attention to pop culture, you may be forgiven for thinking that…
The Necessity of Nationalism
After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Divisionby samuel goldmanuniversity of pennsylvania, 208 pages, $25 Those involved…
The Old Evangelization
Truth in Many Tongues: Religious Conversion and the Languages of the Early Spanish Empire by daniel i.…
Tolstoy’s Wisdom and Folly
In his speech “The Strenuous Life,” Theodore Roosevelt identified “the American character” with “the life of toil…
Acorns
Listeningto acorns fallfrom the oaksin the last lightof a late summerday to land out ofsight on the…
Jonestown University
In the wake of the Derek Chauvin verdict, Bucknell University, the liberal arts school where I work,…
Hallowing Halloween
Olympus has fallen. The old gods are dead. Poseidon is drowned in the sea of forgetfulness and…
The Mystery of Litanies
When we encounter the beautiful, it always surprises us; it overtakes us and turns us around. So…