Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
By Our Wounds We Are Healed
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Traumaby bessel van der kolkpenguin,…
Letters
The English Department Mark Bauerlein’s account of the English department’s decline in “Truth, Reading, Decadence” (June/July) makes…
Literature of the Word
I have always been somewhat bemused by the perennial popularity of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott’s nineteenth—century…
My Confessions
A few years ago, in the middle of the journey of life—in modern terms, having a midlife crisis—I…
Roe Must Fall: A Symposium
Since the Supreme Court decided Roe v. Wade in 1973, more than 60 million Americans have been…
The Historical Adam
What historical claims does the Bible make about Adam and Eve? And is belief in a historical…
The Latin Mass
In mid-July, Pope Francis issued Traditionis Custodes, a motu proprio concerning what’s popularly known as the Latin…
The Radical Wrongness of Roe
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court created a constitutional right of some human beings to kill…
The Rolling Revolution
The Recovery of Family Life:Exposing the Limits of Modern Ideologiesby scott yenorbaylor, 368 pages, $49.99 Norms about…
The Tragic Atheist
I painted to be loved.” That is how the artist Francis Bacon (1909–1992) described his impulse to create.…
A Naive Heretic
Reason to Believe: The Controversial Life of Rabbi Louis Jacobs by harry freedman bloomsbury continuum, 304 pages, $35…
The Casaroli Myth
When I met Cardinal Agostino Casaroli on February 14, 1997, the architect of the Vatican’s Ostpolitik and…
The Abolition of Man
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Father Michael Ward joins the podcast…
Small Mysteries of Time and Memory
On September 24, 1970, I had just begun teaching at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. In…
How to Read Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is a book of doom. In twelve undramatic chapters, King Solomon seems even more stubbornly disconsolate…