What We’ve Been Reading—September 2021

by Editors

Our editors reflect on the future of American foreign policy, the Counter-Reformation, Frank Herbert’s Dune, and the work of Sergij Bulgakov. Continue Reading »

23 Sep 2021

A Critical Theorist Worth Reading

by Carl R. Trueman

Hartmut Rosa is a thinker for an age of technological change and widespread frustration.
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7 Sep 2021

Was Pontius Pilate Innocent?

by Peter J. Leithart

In answer to Pilate’s cynical question, “What is truth?” Christians confess Jesus as the Way, Truth, and Life. Continue Reading »

19 Aug 2021

Faith and Hope in Hong Kong

by David Mulroney

The city’s protest movement is both local and global—not least because of its Christianity. Continue Reading »

25 May 2021

Solemn Bromides

by John Wilson

The historical overview offered by Elcott et al. is inadequate and misleading. Continue Reading »

14 May 2021

What Happened to Catholic Ireland?

by John Duggan

The Irish Church was unable to find its way to both engaging and withstanding modernity. Continue Reading »

11 May 2021

Polemic by Beauty

by Carl R. Trueman

Patriotism, the family, and the Church make life worth living—even when all three are under assault. Continue Reading »

6 May 2021

The Gospel According to John and Mary

by Max Torres

Pakaluk interprets John’s soaring Gospel as informed by conversations he must have enjoyed with Mary over thirty years of living and communing in their common home. Continue Reading »

19 Feb 2021

The Gratuitous Abundance of Books

by John Wilson

There are so many books to instruct and divert us, miming Creation itself in their gratuitous abundance. Continue Reading »

18 Feb 2021

COVID-19 and The Ickabog

by Sarah Rindner

Intentionally or not, The Ickabog may be the most serious literary indictment of the mass response to the COVID-19 epidemic published to date. Continue Reading »

25 Jan 2021