Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
A Midwestern Guide to Hell
Is it possible to warmly recommend a book that you’ve read in a state of near-constant exasperation,…
The Intellectual Vocation
How to Think Like Shakespeare:Lessons from a Renaissance Educationby scott newstokprinceton university press, 185 pages, $19.95 Lost…
Assisted Suicide By Zoom
Those who advocate the legalization of physician-assisted suicide always claim that doctor-prescribed death will involve a meticulous…
A Vanishing Freedom
The latest installment in an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. On this episode, Luke C. Sheahan…
Common Spirit, Common Good
Pentecost was an ancient Hebrew festival, one of the three mandatory feasts for Israelite men. Celebrated in…
The Nun from Nigeria Sits Next to Me at the College Jazz Concert
Face blank as absolution, / from this back row / she stares straight ahead...
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…
The Prodigal Son’s Next Life
He forgave first / not forgiving / himself before / as he then forgave...
Under the Rainbow Banner
In June 1970, America’s first gay pride parades hit the streets. Four U.S. cities—New York, Los Angeles,…
Waning Moon
A translation of Mario Dell’Arco’s “Luna calante”
Imprudent Expertise
Human beings have always yearned to know the future, and there have always been other human beings…
Comb of Leaves
Enough, I am to crumble to the floor; / But all around me are perceptive eyes. /…
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…
Christian Nation, Yes and No
Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States by andrew l. whitehead and samuel…
