Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Hawthorne’s Daughter
In 1891, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, daughter of the novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, was received into the Catholic Church.…
The Problem with the Culture Problem
Shorthand is convenient, but sometimes it confuses. In the game of telephone, by which ideas evolve through…
How to Lose a Cold War (and Why)
North by Northwest’s style is so impeccable, its tone so effervescent, that many viewers fail to grasp…
Talking All Night
I asked my friend, the poet,how she was getting by.“Work and tears,”came her reply. “And listening,” she…
Christingle
The power-cut candle’s wobbly precisionushers the church hall back into vision.We assembled them on a mess table:first…
Requiem for Ethel
Your eyes sparkled. And there was playfulnessIn your smile that veiled your age,Softening the hard years with…
Atwood’s False Testament
The Testamentsn nby margaret atwoodn ntalese, 432 pages, $28.95 Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in…
Work vs. Consumption
In this issue, Oren Cass explodes the false dichotomy between cultural questions and economic ones (“The Problem…
The Individualist
Jacob’s Ladder: The Unauthorised Biography of Jacob Rees-Moggby michael ashcroft biteback, 352 pages, £20 On February 2,…
Letters
Faith & Fertility Darel E. Paul offers an elegant explication of Eric Kaufmann’s complex ethno-political projection of…
Sincerity is Not Self-Knowledge
Teshuva means return, and return in the Hebrew Bible and the Jewish legal tradition means return to…
Briefly Noted
One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Grahamby grant wacker eerdmans, 256 pages, $24.99 The…
Islam Made Me Christian
I grew up in northern Italy, in a Catholic household. For us, as for many Italian families, being…
Bitterness and Hope at Chanukah
A column about Jewish things. Chanukah is Judaism at its least demanding and most comfortable. We light…
The World Will Whimper
Catholic Ireland has fallen. Some vague, residual piety may stay the hand of the Irish from completely…
