November 2023

A Jewish Theology of Resurrection
Does Judaism need a theology of Christianity? The usual answer is no: Whereas without Jews and Judaism…
Critical Grace Theory
As debates over critical race theory rage on, both in society and within the church, one important…
Life at the Center: A Pro-life Statement
Those who seek to advance the Catholic Church’s teaching regarding the sanctity of life confront both new…
The Great Forgetting
The rising generation of leaders knows next to nothing about the great thinkers who have shaped our…
The Men Behind the Met
My grandfather died before I was born, and he remains to me a mostly mysterious figure. As…
A Terrible Grace
Music is a divine balm in the midst of the world’s sorrows. Music is also a sorrow…
How to Fix a Hole in the Heart
The doctor turned to face us. He was a tall man, athletic and thin, put-together and with…
My Father’s Living Will
It is a haze of fog and low cloud at dawn and the kookaburras are wild with…
Photo Negative
It was Lisa del Giocondo who first alerted me to the perils of photography. I’ve been visiting…
System’s Failure
When Ibram X. Kendi and other anti-racists take the fact of disproportionate outcomes as proof of racist…
Being Cultured
Wonder Confronts Certainty:Russian Writers on the Timeless Questions and Why Their Answers Matterby gary saul morsonharvard university, 512…
From Religion to Politics
The Religious Revolution: The Birth of Modern Spirituality, 1848–98by dominic greenfarrar, straus and giroux, 464 pages, $35 The…
Polluted Erotic Ecologies
Feminism Against Progressby mary harringtonregnery, 256 pages, $29.99 Sometimes life is stranger than art. Suppose you were…
Thomists in the Wilderness
The Thomistic Response to the Nouvelle Théologieedited by jon kirwan andtranslated by matthew k. minerdthe catholic university…
A Prodigal
. . . If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there. —Psalm 139: 8…