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View from Patmos
Writing in 1888, J. Theodore Bent described a visit to Patmos, during which he read the Apocalypse.…
Sons of the Right Hand
Bede (Latin Commentaries on Revelation, 133-5) interprets the list of Israel’s tribes in Revelation 7 by etymologizing…
Disenchanted Westworld
HBO’s new television series, Westworld, has generated enormous buzz since its premiere only two weeks ago. The…
Notes on Usury
Violent malice can be directed against God, the self, and the neighbor, Virgil tells Dante (Inferno 11)…
Warrior Bride
Chronicles envisions Israel as a “host” (tzaba). David leads Israel’s hosts. The princes of Israel military commanders.…
The Ties that Bind
Recently I attended my son’s installation ceremony as a member of the student government at his elementary…
The Gioia Effect
If you have attended many poetry readings, you know how often they turn out to be flat…
On Flying Together
My End of Protestantism (the book) deals with a number of the questions Doug Wilson raises in…
A Pope and a Psychiatrist on Transsexual Marriages
At the press conference on his return flight from Azerbaijan, Pope Francis spoke on, among other things,…
Get Thee to an Altar
I wrote last week about some of the contributions made by R. R. Reno’s new book, Resurrecting…
Ritual and Liberalism
John Milbank and Adrian Pabst (The Politics of Virtue, 269) argue that secular critiques of liberalism cannot…
Two Kingdoms, Three Estates, One Spirit
Bernd Wannenwetsch (Political Worship, 63–65) denies that in Luther’s theology politics and economics “count as being a…
John Podesta, Son of the Church
In his Washington Post column today, E.J. Dionne (about whom I have written in these pages before,…
The Student of Politics Must Study the Soul
In his reply to our article, Matt Franck honors us with a thoughtful reflection on the city-soul…
Happy Birthday, Christianity Today!
Christianity Today is sixty years old this month. I remember clearly the day the first issue arrived…
