Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
On Supersessionism
You brood of vipers,” excoriates John the Baptist in what may well be the most politically incorrect…
Algorithm Religion
It’s 2032 and you’re heading into town in your self-driving car. You are alone, asleep in the…
Peace In a Plastic World
Western secular culture “is a kind of hothouse growth,” Christopher Dawson wrote—an artificial culture that shelters us…
Joseph
He scrubbed the trough and filled it with fresh hay.The midnight sky was bright and hard and…
Against the Open Society
Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West by r. r. reno…
Torso
The Christmas angel in the window,a headless, legless mutilation,stands propped by a steel rod. She’s encased in…
First Sunday
In Advent, the hermit lights a candle-end,Drips wax onto a saucer, stands it there.The early nightfall forms…
The Edifice
I chose a bench where I could read AugustineAs one may do beside construction sites.Late February, sunny,…
America’s Fat Knight
Harold Bloom, who died in October at age eighty-nine, was The Last Great American Literary Critic. The…
Failed Leaders
Suicides among Americans aged ten to twenty-four increased by more than 50 percent between 2007 and 2017.…
Ibsen’s Soulcraft
The Norwegian master Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906) is and will remain the most important modern playwright—which is not…
Opiate of the Theologians
Not until the nineteenth century did any Christian body make universal salvation its official teaching. The first…
Notes on Summer Camp
More than twenty-five years ago, I spent two summers as a camp counselor in North Carolina. This…
Rooted Cosmopolitan
In 2011, I reviewed what was then Adam Zagajewski’s recent collection, Unseen Hand. In it, the poet, then…
Turning Inward
The Meaning of Protestant Theologyby phillip carybaker, 384 pages, $32.99 The most immediate and pressing ecumenical question…
