January 2026
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Letters
As a Protestant, I began Valerie Stivers’s “How I Learned to Love Confession” (November 2025) mentally recalling…
In Praise of Translation
This essay was delivered as the 38th Annual Erasmus Lecture. The circumstances of my life have been…
The Problem with the Evangelical Elite
The problem with the evangelical elite is that there isn’t one. All too few evangelical Christians hold…
Practitioners of Infanticide
A physician declares his dying patient—a seven-pound baby boy—“dangerous as dynamite,” a “menace to society.” A routine…
Caravaggio and Us
Nicolas Poussin, the greatest French artist of the seventeenth century, once said that Caravaggio had come into…
Tucker and the Right
Something like a civil war is unfolding within the American conservative movement. It is not merely a…
Work Is for the Worker
In these early days of his pontificate, Pope Leo XIV has made one thing clear: The responsible…
Just Stop It
Earlier this summer, Egypt’s Ministry of Religious Endowments launched a new campaign. It is entitled “Correct Your…
Dark Phantoms
It happened quickly, so quickly that you’d think it was impossible to retain the image. The Ohio…
Goddity
The Nativity of our Lord—born an infant, laid in a manger. It’s an utterly strange story: The…
Tunnel Vision
Alice Roberts is a familiar face in British media. A skilled archaeologist, she has for years hosted…
Hegemon or Empire?
Was the First Gulf War a mistake? The historian Paul Schroeder thought the answer was yes...
Make Me A Lutheran
John Fisher, the renowned Bishop of Rochester, is known to history chiefly for having been put to…
Shakespeare and the City
Recently I checked into a pleasant, fairly sterile Marriott in Shoreditch ahead of my London debut as…
What Does “Postliberalism” Mean?
Many regard “postliberalism” as a political program. In 1993, when the tide of globalized liberalism was at…
The Lessons of Woodrow Wilson
In his excellent book about our troubled times, Democracy and Solidarity: On the Cultural Roots of America’s…
Recovering a Christian World
We’ve lost touch with reality. Technology is certainly a factor. A few years ago, people on airplanes…
While We’re At It
Anglicans refer to the last Sunday before Advent as “Stir Up” Sunday. This puzzled me as…
Canticle of All Creatures
This poem was written by St. Francis of Assisi, and translated by Dana Gioia. Most high, all…
Address Book
The leather binding, torn and askew,is barely joined by brittle pieces of Scotch tape. And the names…
The Ruin
Remorseless sun stunts the dew Glistening towers of tainted glassignite and blister …
