Theology
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Madonna
When you get to be my age—71 or thereabouts—remembering takes up an ever-increasing proportion of your mental…
Flower Power?
A recent tweet from Union Theological Seminary in New York City indicates that the institution, which once…
The Altar’s Tears
A biweekly column about Jewish things. The first institution of Jewish society is the family. At home,…
Help My Unbelief
My brother committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning in the fall of 1980. It was a gut-wrenching…
All You Need Is Jesus
I’ve been to see the “good-time movie of the summer”: Yesterday, the story of a world in…
Hitler the Progressive
Has the mass murder of Europe’s Jews eclipsed the other significant horrors of Hitler’s Germany? Does it…
Australian Justice in the Dock
Consider this sequence of events, familiar to some but evidently not to others: March 2013: Prior to…
Concerning Bullshit
Princeton University, as its graduates will gladly tell you, is the real treasure of the Ivy League.…
Playing Church
An Associated Press feel-good story surfaced recently concerning the festive send-off and theatrical suicide of a 75-year-old…
The Breath of God
What do a genocidal African ex-warlord, an ambitious and fecund Buddhist man with sixteen children, and a…
French and Ahmari Enter the Ring
For much of their debate, hosted on Thursday at Catholic University of America, David French and Sohrab Ahmari were talking past each other. When…
Tullian Tchividjian’s Upside Down Christianity
Four years after a sex scandal prompted him to depart from Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Tullian Tchividjian,…
A Theology of Meat
A reflection on this week’s Torah portion. Last week I was eating a hamburger, and a relative asked…
The Fate of Hong Kong’s Christians
Christians in Hong Kong overwhelmingly support the mass protests that have disrupted the region for the last…
A Sloppy Attack on National Conservatism
A great deal of ink has been spilt in recent months about the “new nationalism” taking hold…
