“You Have to Decide.”
by George WeigelHelping his young friends to see the good and choose it as a matter of habit—growth in virtue—was Karol Wojtyła's pastoral method. Continue Reading »
The Principled Ambivalence of Pope Francis
by Robert P. ImbelliThe governing principles of Pope Francis's Evangelii Gaudium remain inchoate and uncertain. Continue Reading »
Our Misguided War on Legalism
by Joshua GibbsGod governs man, but man is made in God’s image and so in tribute to God’s rule, man must make rules for his own person. Continue Reading »
Reformation “What Might Have Beens”
by Peter J. LeithartProtestantism will not reach its end until the Reformation’s divisions end. Continue Reading »
A Rose in Bloom: Luther’s Reformation at 500
by Mathew BlockThe confessional Lutheran church today may be poor and weak, but it stands as the true heir of the Reformation. Continue Reading »
Everything Is Outside the Text
by Francesca Aran MurphyNeither Christianity nor Judaism is actually a “religion of the Book”—both regard scripture as a secondary witness to something infinitely greater, namely, the presence of God with his people. Continue Reading »
Luther at 500
by Phillip CaryIt all did start with the ninety-five theses, in a sense. Luther probably did not actually nail them to the church door—at least no one at the time tells us so. And if he did, it was not in anger or protest against the church. He was trying to arrange an academic discussion, and evidently . . . . Continue Reading »
A Christian Strategy
by Adrian VermeuleThe problem is the relentless aggression of liberalism, driven by an internal mechanism that causes ever more radical demands for political conformism, particularly targeting the Church. The solution is an equally radical form of strategic flexibility on the part of the Church, which must stand . . . . Continue Reading »
Talking to Heraclitus
by Leonard Kriegel“Life has the name of life but in reality it is death,” writes Heraclitus. No Bronx boy, even one who has celebrated his eighty-fourth birthday, has enough chutzpah to argue with that. Yet having survived to so ripe an age, I find that when it comes to death, I prefer a more American voice, . . . . Continue Reading »
Thus Saith the Lord
by Nathaniel PetersOne Sunday in high school, we went to the Anglo-Catholic parish where my headmaster served as an assistant priest. Catechized by evangelical Episcopalians and Presbyterians, I believed that the Bible was divinely inspired by God. But I had never seen it treated as such in a physical or ritual way. . . . . Continue Reading »
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