Peter J. Leithart

Alan Garner has for a long, long time been plotting complex stories and achieving uncanny effects with matter-of-fact but densely allusive prose. Continue Reading »

Your average textbook on Eucharistic theology won't have a substantial discussion of Descartes, Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, or Schiller. There are historical and theological reasons why that’s regrettable. Continue Reading »

Lots of bad people get their deserts, but the world of Ozark is one where sinners cannot be laundered and aren’t judged. Continue Reading »

The gift of the woman transforms the man from a waterless waste into the human equivalent of the garden of God. Continue Reading »

God is the God of exodus, who hears the cries of his people, visits them in their distress, and takes vengeance against rivals.  Continue Reading »

Only through tribulation does hope have its advent in the world, and all this comes to literal fulfillment in Mary. Continue Reading »

Here is the hope of the gospel: There is a love stronger than death, a love more jealously possessive than the grave.  Continue Reading »

It may sound miserable, but desperation and obsession are what make finishing up the most delicious part of the whole book-writing process. Continue Reading »

The shapers of Hawaii's Christian monarchy lie alongside conspirators who undid that same monarchy. Continue Reading »

As time progresses, science points more towards teleology and away from Darwin. Continue Reading »