Theology

A selection of recent articles on this topic

The Problem with the Culture Problem

Oren Cass

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)

Matthew Schmitz

North by Northwest’s style is so impeccable, its tone so effervescent, that many viewers fail to grasp…

Talking All Night

Alfred Nicol

I asked my friend, the poet,how she was getting by.“Work and tears,”came her reply. “And listening,” she…

Christingle

Iain Twiddy

The power-cut candle’s wobbly precisionushers the church hall back into vision.We assembled them on a mess table:first…

Requiem for Ethel

David B. Wester

Your eyes sparkled. And there was playfulnessIn your smile that veiled your age,Softening the hard years with…

Work vs. Consumption

R. R. Reno

In this issue, Oren Cass explodes the false dichotomy between cultural questions and economic ones (“The Problem…

Atwood’s False Testament

Ramona Tausz

The Testamentsn nby margaret atwoodn ntalese, 432 pages, $28.95 Novels are not slogans,” Margaret Atwood said in…

The Individualist

Dan Hitchens

Jacob’s Ladder: The Unauthorised Biography of Jacob Rees-Moggby michael ashcroft biteback, 352 pages, £20 On February 2,…

Letters—January 2020

Various

Faith & Fertility Darel E. Paul offers an elegant explication of Eric Kaufmann’s complex ethno-political projection of…

Sincerity is Not Self-Knowledge

Shalom Carmy

Teshuva means return, and return in the ­Hebrew Bible and the Jewish legal tradition means return to…

Briefly Noted

Various

One Soul at a Time: The Story of Billy Grahamby grant wacker eerdmans, 256 pages, $24.99 The…

Islam Made Me Christian

Alessandra Bocchi

I grew up in northern Italy, in a Catholic household. For us, as for many Italian families, being…

Catholic Zionism

Gavin D'Costa

In 1965, in Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is…

Bitterness and Hope at Chanukah

Cole S. Aronson

A column about Jewish things. Chanukah is Judaism at its least demanding and most comfortable. We light…

The World Will Whimper

John Duggan

Catholic Ireland has fallen. Some vague, residual piety may stay the hand of the Irish from completely…