Life of Faith
A selection of recent articles on this topic
The Reformation, a Tragic Necessity
Jaroslav Pelikan (1923-2006) was the greatest historian of Christian doctrine since Adolf von Harnack, and he was…
A Blessedly Unpredictable Council
I had begun writing about the results of the Pan-Orthodox Council, which recently finished its work in…
Healing Memories through Divine Mercy
Of all the issues people don’t like discussing, high on the list is the emotional and spiritual…
Lawn Care Spiritualized
I’ve been paraphrasing Hazel Motes a lot lately. He’s the tortured protagonist of Flannery O’Connor’s novel Wise…
An Inquisition Is Not a Witch-Hunt
It’s Dangerous to Believe: Religious Freedom and Its Enemiesby mary eberstadtharper, 158 pages, $25.99 Members of traditional…
Bystanders to Genocide
“Who today still speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?” —Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939 The visit…
Orlando was Not a Tragedy
Omar Mateen’s murder of forty-nine people in Orlando has been called a tragedy—“the Orlando tragedy,” as we…
Music Man
Readers often find the opening chapters of 1 Chronicles stultifying. These pages contain list after list of…
The Pan-Orthodox Council Must and Will Proceed
The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, an event that has been in preparation for…
Terrorism Is Not Hate
Hate. It’s a word many have used to describe Omar Mateen’s slaughter of fifty people at an…
Who Lost Christian Europe?
In 1949, after Mao Tse-tung’s Communist troops overthrew the US-backed government of Chiang Kai-shek, the Communists seized…
Ritualed Knowing
Knowledge by Ritual: A Biblical Prolegomena to Sacramental TheologyBy Dru JohnsonEisenbrauns, 289 pages, $39.95 Epistemology and ritual…
The One Really Interesting Story
The Christian Church confesses that [what the world calls]“myth” is history itself. She recognizes herself by this…
Pope Francis, Erich Przywara, and the Idea of Europe
Last Friday, on May 6, Pope Francis was awarded the Charlemagne Prize, which is conferred annually by…
Father Berrigan Remembered
When Daniel Berrigan died recently at the age of 94, obituaries throughout the world described the legendary…
