Death Penalties and the Divine

by James R. Rogers

Does the Bible provide principled grounds for abolition of the death penalty? Continue Reading »

28 Mar 2017

Pope Francis’s Achilles Heel

by William Doino Jr.

The pope’s deepest problems are the result of self-inflicted wounds. Continue Reading »

27 Mar 2017

Charles Taylor and the Communion of the Saints

by Dale M. Coulter

Taylor’s prescription for our secular age remains connected to his reading of Christian tradition, in particular his understanding of the communion of the saints. Continue Reading »

24 Mar 2017

Pope Francis as Historian

by Bronwen McShea

The pope’s historical formulations—about Luther and Jesuit missions—makes this historian wince. Continue Reading »

23 Mar 2017

Harmony and the Scriptures: Lenten Reflections on Harnoncourt and Bach

by Michael Maria Waldstein

I became aware of the clash between Harnoncourt and Richter, right around the time when my own musical taste became more mature and critical, at age fifteen or sixteen. I was a Richterian; Harnoncourt struck me as harsh and uncouth. Continue Reading »

23 Mar 2017

The Bible and Colonial America

by Glenn Moots

Mark Noll’s reliance on a reductive caricature of Protestant political theology causes him to give a false impression of how most colonial American Protestants deployed sacred and secular sources in their political thought. Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2017

On “Owning” the Church

by George Weigel

No earthly power creates the Church and no earthly power owns the Church. The Church was created by the Lord Jesus, and it is his, not ours. Continue Reading »

22 Mar 2017

Ecclesiology in Space

by David Randall

Science fiction’s ambition to evoke the immensely long and strange history of the future gives these three works peculiar power to meditate on the promise that the Church will survive. Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2017

Can We Talk?

by Timothy George

Conversations can be deep or shallow, casual or serious, but they invariably take place as an encounter between an “I” and a “thou.” Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2017

The Benedict Option and the Way of Exchange

by Alan Jacobs

Debate over the Benedict Option has been conducted at the level of competing world-historical metanarratives. Instead, let’s focus on the local and personal. Continue Reading »

20 Mar 2017