Life of Faith
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Dignity v. Freedom
Justice Kennedy concluded his majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges with this summary: Gay couples “ask for…
Social Sins in Lent
The season of Lent is a time of meditation and self-denial, as Christians join with Jesus in…
What the Church Does Not Believe
This Lent has me digging through the Apostle’s Creed. Viewed in a certain direction, it not only…
On the Ground in Wheaton
The following remarks were among several friendly responses to Professor Miroslav Volf’s presentation, “Do Christians & Muslims…
The Other Internet
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distractionby matthew b. crawfordfarrar,…
The Loving Intellect
What does it mean to be an intellectual? The word comes from the Latin word for understanding,…
Christian but Not Religious
Recently, a pastor at an Evangelical church in New York City (we have them) told me about…
What We Do Not Believe Is What We Believe
I’m spending time this Lent with the Creed. I hadn’t gotten further than the first sentence before…
The Breath of Mercy
A mother shouldn’t have favorites, but I have often observed that she inclines more to the child…
Justice Scalia on Funeral Sermons
When Jessica Mitford first published The American Way of Death in 1963, she unleashed a broadside against…
Funeral Homily for Justice Antonin Scalia
We are gathered here because of one man. A man known personally to many of us, known…
Called to Unity
Like many Ukrainian Greco-Catholics, I am pleased that Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill finally met in Havana…
The Havana Declaration
For me, the text of the Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill’s joint declaration came as a surprise,…
Faith, Hope, Love, Fast
The history of the Bible turns on fasts broken and kept. As Alexander Schmemann put it, God…
An Imposition of Ashes
Just lately from the forest and after a short time on the savannah, humanity acquired a sense…
