Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
Catholic Zionism
In 1965, in Nostra Aetate, the Second Vatican Council affirmed that God’s covenant with the Jewish people is…
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…
Christmas, Freedom, and Obedience
On December 17, the day the first “O Antiphon” signaled the intensification of preparations for Christmas, the…
Dignity in Flames
The flames of the Hanukkah candles symbolize both enchantment and futility in a way that speaks to…
The Lowliness of Human Flesh
Of all the secular world’s contributions to the celebration of Christmas, one of my favorites is A…
The Case For Keeping Trump
Should the Senate remove President Trump from office? Mark Galli, editor of Christianity Today, says “yes!” He…
Evangelical Elites Are Out of Touch
Some years ago I wrote a short book in which I argued that, while political thinking was…
A Hidden Life: The Story of a Marriage
I thought we could build our nest high up in the trees.” We hear the voice of…
God Is True
Let God be found true, though every man be found a liar,” Paul writes (Rom. 3:4). Paul’s…
The Well-Fought Fight
The incorporation of Anglican hymnody into English-language Catholic worship is one of the great blessings of the…
“Fairness For All” Is Unfair
I recently gave a presentation on transgenderism to a group of suburban Minnesotans. After my talk, an…
