Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Nun from Nigeria Sits Next to Me at the College Jazz Concert
Face blank as absolution, from this back rowshe stares straight ahead …
The Prodigal Son’s Next Life
He forgave firstnot forgivinghimself before as he then forgavethe dust trailing his stepsfaithful as his shadow, as…
The Old Man in the Nursery School
Nathan Alterman (1910–1970) was the most important Hebrew poet of his generation. He was popular with readers…
Waning Moon
A translation of Mario Dell’Arco’s“Luna calante” Pendant around the neck of night:ringed by Taurus, Capricorn,Ursa Major on…
Under the Rainbow Banner
In June 1970, America’s first gay pride parades hit the streets. Four U.S. cities—New York, Los Angeles,…
Comb of Leaves
Enough, I am to crumble to the floor;But all around me are perceptive eyes.I feel like going…
Imprudent Expertise
Human beings have always yearned to know the future, and there have always been other human beings…
Christian Nation, Yes and No
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States by andrew l. whitehead and samuel…
Seeds
Tiny packets of life, these seeds. They seeminvisible in our busy days, and, tossedby shoes, or cracked…
Russian Purgatory
The Russian soul. The phrase serves as shorthand for Russia’s national character, after the manner of American…
Phobos and Deimos
At the beginning of book VII of Virgil’s Aeneid, auspicious winds send the ships of the Trojan…
Young Pius
The Pope Who Would Be King: The Exile of Pius IX and the Emergence of Modern Europeby david…
The Final Enemy
Human mortality has always fascinated the greatest creative minds—from Homer declaiming on the slayings of Patroclus and…
Gelded Critics of Capitalism
The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the Religion of Modernityby eugene mccarraher belknap, 816 pages, $39.95…
The Fallen Men of Film Noir
In the mid-1940s, Hollywood began to make a new kind of crime film. Combining sex and violence,…
