Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
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…
God’s Garbage People
As the sun comes up, the men go out from Garbage City and into the streets of…
Witch Ways
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by ronald hutton yale, 376…
Recalled to Life
Crippled by a stroke, my aunt Miriam spent the last seventeen years of her life in a…
France Fractured
L’archipel français: naissance d’une nation multiple et diviséeby jérôme fourquet le seuil, 384 pages, 22€ Living between…
Briefly Noted
God Visible: Patristic Christology Reconsideredby brian e. daley, s.j. oxford, 312 pages, $88 The great liberal Protestant…
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…
Elizabeth to Her Cousin
After Jacob of Serug Blessed are you, O Maiden; blest The fruit which dwells within your…
Trying Abraham
A biweekly column about Jewish things. No one was tested more harshly than Abraham. His second most…
No Unity Without the Cross
This essay was given as a homily on November 16, 2019, at the Mass of the Americas…
The Reformed Liturgy, 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago, on November 30, 1969, the Catholic Church marked the First Sunday of Advent with…
Is China a Model of the Common Good?
In 2018, Archbishop Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo, chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, said in an…
