Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Paul Bowles’s The Sheltering Sky at 75
The Sheltering Sky begins with one protagonist opening his eyes and ends with another refusing to open…
Trump’s Victory Is Good News for Religious Believers
Religious believers breathed sighs of relief on Wednesday morning. Religious liberty was not a significant issue in…
On the Centenary of Sigrid Undset’s Conversion
One hundred years ago today, at the age of forty-two, Norwegian novelist Sigrid Undset entered the Catholic…
Put Not Your Trust in Princes
As the presidential campaign winds down, the Trump-Vance ticket is ramping up warnings of Christian persecution if…
Anxiety: A Philosophical Problem
The latest installment of an ongoing interview series with contributing editor Mark Bauerlein. Samir Chopra joins in…
The End of the Age of Hitler
A century ago, the most potent moral figure in the West was Jesus Christ. Believers and unbelievers…
Screens and Sacraments
The coronation of King Charles III made for great television: horsemen in breastplates and plumes; a bejeweled…
The Humanity of Hospitality
Princeton professor Robert P. George recently drew my attention to a trivial but emblematic incident in which a flight…
Finding Hope at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary
My visit to St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Seminary in South Canaan, Pennsylvania, was a long time coming. For…
The Campus Ministry Boom
In his senior year of high school, Chris faced a spiritual crisis. He’d grabbed his brass ring:…
At the Graveside
Based on Philip Melanchthon’s epitaph for his son, Georg
Fellow Travelers
Christianity is cropping up in unexpected places. This summer, Jordan Peterson chatted with Elon Musk. In his…
Common Sense Tragedy
Machen’s Hope: The Transformation of a Modernist in the New Princetonby richard e. burnetteerdmans, 638 pages, $45.99…
Can Nations Be Baptized?
Can nations be baptized? Jesus thought so. His last words in Matthew’s Gospel are, “Go therefore and…
Lose the Gospel, Return to Childishness
In Milan Kundera’s 1975 novel The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Czechoslovakian president Gustav Husak—the “President of…
