Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Pascha and Pandemic
This year’s Easter celebrations have revealed deep tensions in church-state relations throughout the world. On what Christians…
Why School Prayer Matters
In his State of the Union address and elsewhere, President Trump has emphasized the importance of prayer…
Prince of Diplomats
Metternich: Strategist and Visionary by wolfram siemann translated by daniel steuer harvard, 928 pages, $24.95 In the…
Just Hospitality
Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fearnby matthew kaemingkneerdmans, 352 pages, $28 Without quite…
American Scream
The American Dream Is Not Dead (But Populism Could Kill It)by michael r. strain templeton, 168 pages,…
Confucian Integralism
In May 1989, protestors in Tiananmen Square erected a plaster statue of the Goddess Democracy. For almost…
COVID-19: New York Diary
Friday, March 20. A light fog hangs in the air in the early morning as I walk…
An Accident
The road flares burning where the truck swerved off / Just before midnight show the streaks in…
Thumbing an Issue of Forbes
In the obits, ballplayers still finish first, / their August exploits no one quite remembers / restored…
Methodism Dividing
In the summer of 2016, Karen Oliveto, a “self-avowed practicing homosexual,” was elected and consecrated a bishop…
Reading the Signs
So-and-so slept here, a date, a list / of battles fought—whatever they’re about, / he reads them…
The Secret of the Saeculum
The Music of Providence In the tenth book of The City of God, Augustine reminds his readers…
Notre-Dame de Paris, 2015
Most evenings I’d meet Daniel right in front / Of City Hall, to walk home for our…
Italy in Crisis
With just over 120,000 people, Bergamo, northeast of Milan, is not a particularly populous city, and it…
Little Rock and the Terrors of Social Life
To a small child in 1957 Brooklyn, Little Rock was a faraway place. The only thing I…
