The Divine Inversion

by James R. Rogers

In Evangelical churches, the why of the virgin birth receives less attention than the fact of it. Continue Reading »

14 Dec 2016

Missing Mary

by Eric M. Riesen

A Lutheran pastor on why we are all, whether we know it or not, “Marian” Christians. Continue Reading »

29 Aug 2016

The Virgin and The Donald

by Matthew Milliner

At Donald Trump's old church, Mary and the fugitive Holy Family are there—just tucked in the corner, safely out of sight. Continue Reading »

19 Jul 2016

The Smartphone and the Virgin

by Mark Movsesian

Updating Henry Adams's famous meditation on technology and tradition. Continue Reading »

30 Jun 2016

Confessions to Father Newman

by Brian Doyle

“I would suggest that you not consider marriage again until you are at least ten years old.” Continue Reading »

10 Jun 2016

Mary at Baptism?

by Timothy George

On an escarpment high above the Euphrates River in eastern Syria sit the ruins of Dura-Europos, one of the most important archeological finds of the twentieth century. Founded in 303 BC by the Seleucid successors of Alexander the Great, this ancient caravan city of some 8,000 to 10,000 people was . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Feb 2016

Mary, Mother of All

by Mollie Ziegler Hemingway

My children shower me with affection, so I have no real reason to go fishing for more love. But I do it anyway. The problem is, when I ask if they love Mommy or Daddy more, they always insist that they love us equally. Sometimes I load the question the way political pollsters do: “Daddy has been . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2016

The Holy Family

by Russell E. Saltzman

Of the Passover festival in Jerusalem, St. Luke concisely reports, “When the festival was ended, Jesus stayed behind but his parents did not know it” (2:43). Of course they didn’t know it. They are parents. What makes anyone think they knew anything at all? The twelve-year-old Jesus decided to . . . . Continue Reading »

31 Dec 2015

The Last Scapegoat

by Matthew Milliner

The following is a sermon given last Sunday at All Souls Church (Wheaton, IL) in the wake of another Wheaton media controversy.

24 Dec 2015

Wishing for God’s Plan: Mary’s fiat in Luke 1:38

by Sarah Klitenic Wear

In the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., hangs van Eyck’s The Annunciation, where a rainbow-winged Gabriel salutes Mary, blue-draped, arms open in prayer. Gabriel proclaims, Ave gratia plena, to which Mary responds, ecce ancilla domini. Her words are written in reverse because they are . . . . Continue Reading »

8 Dec 2015