Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
Death Penalties and the Divine
In Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It’s Killing Us, Shane Claiborne argues…
Pope Francis’s Achilles Heel
In a recent interview with the German paper Die Zeit, Pope Francis declared, “I am a sinner…
On “Owning” the Church
The question of “who owns the Church” has had a stormy history in Catholic America, although the…
Can We Talk?
So much of the Bible, and thus so much of the Bible’s theology, takes place through conversations.…
The Most Dangerous Man in Christendom?
A phone call last week from a pastor friend brought this strange report: One of the leading…
God as Therapy in The Shack
As a high school senior in my affluent Northern California exurb, I briefly associated with a group…
Generation Z: Desperate for Rules
I recently attended a meeting that many would consider anachronistic: Standards Night, an annual gathering for Mormon…
A New Lenten Discipline
For Lent 2016, I adopted a new Forty Days discipline in addition to intensified prayer, daily almsgiving,…
Pro-Life, Pro-Truth
It is an exciting time to be pro-life. The political situation, all the way up to the…
A Lent to Remember
The best Lent of my life involved getting up every day at 5:30 a.m., hiking for miles…
The Rise of Dystopian Nonfiction
I have been fascinated by dystopias since my youth—a youth full of sci-fi movies with grim visions…
Redemption of the Erotic
The following is an excerpt from Archbishop Chaput’s new book, Strangers in a Strange Land. To borrow…
The Dangers of Half-Truths
You’ve read it again and again. Finnis and Grisez asserted it. Joseph Seifert said the same thing…
No Authority Over Divine Law
In his column this week, George Weigel writes that “it cannot be the case that a grave…
Paul, Apollos, and Cephas, all Over Again
In April 2016, Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth, England, issued a pastoral letter on the interpretation of…
